Research authors’ reply to Barlow and Barr and Taylor-Robinson

A valid point that Barr and Taylor-Robinson raise in their editorial accompanying our research article is that one should distinguish between economic crises themselves and policy responses to these crises.1 2 Nothing in our inclusion/exclusion criteria suggests that studies looking at policies would be excluded. None of the omitted studies Barlow refers to were excluded because they focused on policy responses to the crisis.3 They …