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A new briefing paper – The case for releasing the young from lockdown – by experts at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ and ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Business School makes the case for releasing those aged 20-30 that do not live with older citizens, who appear to be more susceptible to severe cases of the virus, as the best approach to eventually lifting the lockdown.

Initial release of findings from involving more than 100,000 participants around the global reveals important cross-country differences on how citizens prepare and cope with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and may help inform governments in their decision-making

In the first analysis of how COVID19 affects economic sentiment, a team of researchers including Dr Thiemo Fetzer and Dr Christopher Roth from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ has found that the arrival of the new Coronavirus in a country is associated with a sharp increase in Google searches indicative of anxieties and economic fears.

Researchers from ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Economics and ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Business School are among the speakers taking part in a major policy conference organized in partnership with the Bank of England and Rebuilding Macroeconomics. The conference will bring together international researchers from around the globe to discuss whether, and how, economists and policymakers can replace the notion of ‘rational economic man’ with theoretical and empirical models that recognize its limitations.

More than 500 people took part in the workshops, talks and activities organised by the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ for this year’s ESRC Festival of Social Science. University researchers took to Coventry and ¹û¶³´«Ã½shire’s streets, bars and community centres to share insights from their work with enthusiastic and interested audiences. The events tackled topics from the nature of time itself and the puzzle of DNA to taxes and accents.

New research from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ shows that human memory is significantly worse in parts of England with high levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and air particulates (PM10). The difference in memory quality between England’s cleanest and most-polluted areas is equivalent to the loss of memory from 10 extra years of ageing.