The intergenerational mortality tradeoff of COVID-19 lockdown policies

• Main Authors: MA, Lin, SHAPIRA, Gil, DE WALQUE, Damien, DO, Quy-Toan, FRIEDMAN, Jed, LEVCHENKO, Andrei A.
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• 主題: COVID-19; child mortality; lockdown; SIR-macro; Economics; Health Economics; Public Health
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2607; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3606/viewcontent/Int_Economic_Review___2022___Ma___THE_INTERGENERATIONAL_MORTALITY_TRADE_OFF_OF_COVID_19_LOCKDOWN_POLICIES.pdf
• 機構: Singapore Management University

In lower-income countries, the economic contractions that accompany lockdowns to contain COVID-19 transmission can increase child mortality, counteracting the mortality reductions achieved by the lockdown. To formalize and quantify this effect, we build a macro-susceptible-infected-recovered model t...