The Intergenerational Mortality Tradeoff of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies

The Intergenerational Mortality Tradeoff of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies

In lower-income countries, the economic contractions that accompany lockdowns to contain the spread of COVID-19 can increase child mortality, counteracting the mortality reductions achieved by the lockdown. To formalize and quantify this effect, this paper builds a macro-susceptible-infected-rec...

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Main Authors: Ma, Lin, Shapira, Gil, de Walque, Damien, Do, Quy-Toan, Friedman, Jed, Levchenko, Andrei A.
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:
CORONAVIRUS
COVID-19
PANDEMIC RESPONSE
LOCKDOWN
CHILD MORTALITY
SIR-MACRO
ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
PANDEMIC IMPACT
BUSINESS CYCLE
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/990621622121589737/The-Intergenerational-Mortality-Tradeoff-of-COVID-19-Lockdown-Policies
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35638

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