The bottom three panels present results for searches related to religion. The bottom-left panel is a generic “prayer” search, while the other two are specific to different religions: “bible” for Christianity and “quran” for Islam. At first glance, there appears to be a jump in searches for “prayer” and “quran” in April/May of 2020. However, there is an important caveat: we see the same increase in 2019. This may be driven by the fact that Ramadan took place around late April/early May to late May/early June. In 2019, for example, Eid al-Fitr was June 3<sup>rd</sup> to 4<sup>th</sup> , while in 2020 the dates were May 23<sup>rd</sup> and 24<sup>th</sup> .

On the other hand, searches for “bible” do not show a bump in 2019, yet we see a large bump in April 2020, similar to the mobility trends. Again, the jump is biggest in Sub-Saharan Africa, but there is also a sizeable bump in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Figure 10 presents the results disaggregated by country income. In the top panel, all three search trends – food bank, assistance, and online education – show large increases in searches in April and May. Interestingly, we also see a small increase in searches for online education in low-income countries. We see similar patterns – if not levels – across all income categories for the bottom three searches. However, it is again worth noting that only for “bible” is the trend different from 2019; both “prayer” and “quran” show similar patterns across the two years, although the 2020 bump happens to line up with the start of the pandemic, though the jump in prayer seems to be larger in 2020.

# 3.3 Food prices

Figure 11 breaks down the average prices by region. There is a single pattern tying all of these different food items together: there is a marked drop in average prices between March and May/June. The largest drop differs by food – for example, the largest drop for eggs is in South Asia in June through August, while the largest drop for chicken is in East Asia and the Pacific as well as the Middle East and North Africa. Moreover, while exact patterns differ across regions – bread and egg prices seem relatively flat in the Middle East and North Africa, for example – there appear to be clear similarities.

It seems unlikely that this is driven by, for example, simple seasonal patterns for a couple of reasons. First, the same patterns are seen throughout all regions, with relatively few exceptions. Since these regions are quite heterogeneous – for example, the agricultural season is at different times of the year in many of the countries – it seems unlikely that seasonal patterns could drive the shared variation. Second, Figure A1 in the appendix presents average global prices for rice, taken from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the IMF. It does not appear that yearly prices, at least for rice, tend to be lower in May and June than in January. If anything, it is usually the opposite.

The final set of results breaks down food prices by country income category. We present these results in Figure 12. The results are consistent with the patterns seen in the previous figure, although this breakdown adds a bit more information. Specifically, the drop was much lower in low-income countries for several foods – eggs, milk, rice, and, especially, chicken and onions. For 10