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Data collection, organization and use must underpin decision-making, says statistician Raffaelle Piccarreta, taking stock of data usage over the past year

Research by Elena Gramano monitors the measures taken across Europe

Zachary Parolin analyzed the distribution of school closures due to Covid and concluded that racial minorities, students in need and with already poor academic performance have been more likely to be engaged in remote schooling since September 2020

Two recent studies on food systems in Europe and the pandemic highlight just how vulnerable to disruption these systems are

According to Alex Turrini, the pandemic acted as a digital transformation accelerator, as never before

From the homepage of Bocconi Covid Crisis Lab readers can go to a mapping app developed by Marco Bonetti and Ugofilippo Basellini and monitor the epidemic in Italy

New research by Guido Tabellini shows that the risk of creating a hidden subsidy for uncompetitive firms should not hold back governments and banks from providing firms with credit during the Covid-19 pandemic

When herd immunity is reached, it is in rich countries' selfinterest to donate vaccines to countries that have a proportion of susceptible people still above the critical level. This strategy is particularly effective when recipent countries are close to immunity and vaccination can avert the economic losses inherent in closing borders

Alessia Melegaro has been named one of the 12 members of the new Scientific Technical Committee (CTS, from the Italian Comitato Tecnico Scientifico). The new CTS includes representatives of statistical, mathematical and epidemiological disciplines.

A  study on 1,642 British firms highlights that optimistic entrepreneurs implemented more innovation and more organizational change than the rest during the Covid spring lockdown