The intergenerational mortality trade-off of COVID-19 lockdown policies

The intergenerational mortality trade-off of COVID-19 lockdown policies

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 macrosusceptible-infected-recovered model th...

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Main Authors: MA, Lin, SHAPIRA, Gil, de WALQUE, Damien, DO, Quy-Toan, FIEDMAN, Jed, LEVCHENKO, Andrei A.
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
Subjects:
COVID-19
pandemics
lockdown policies
government policies
Behavioral Economics
Health Policy
Public Health
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2620
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3619&context=soe_research
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary: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 macrosusceptible-infected-recovered model that features heterogeneous agents and a country-group-specific relationship between economic downturns and child mortality and calibrate it to data for 85 countries across all income levels. We find that in some low-income countries, a lockdown can produce net increases in mortality. The optimal lockdown that maximizes the present value of aggregate social welfare is shorter and milder in poorer countries than in rich ones.

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