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Title: | Slums and Pandemics |
Author: | Brotherhood, Luiz Cavalcanti, Tiago Da Mata, Daniel Santos, Cezar |
Keywords: | COVID-19 Marginació social Barris Política de despeses públiques COVID-19 Social marginality Neighborhood Government spending policy |
Issue Date: | 1-Jun-2022 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Abstract: | How do slums shape the economic and health dynamics of pandemics? A difference-in-differences analysis using millions of mobile phones in Brazil shows that residents of overcrowded slums engaged in less social distancing after the outbreak of Covid-19. We develop and calibrate a choice-theoretic equilibrium model in which individuals are heterogeneous in income and some people live in high-density slums. Slum residents account for a disproportionately high number of infections and deaths and, without slums, deaths increase in non-slum neighborhoods. Policy analysis of reallocation of medical resources, lockdowns and cash transfers produce heterogeneous effects across groups. Policy simulations indicate that: reallocating medical resources cuts deaths and raises output and the welfare of both groups; mild lockdowns favor slum individuals by mitigating the demand for hospital beds, whereas strict confinements mostly delay the evolution of the pandemic; and cash transfers benefit slum residents to the detriment of others, highlighting important distributional effects. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102882 |
It is part of: | Journal of Development Economics, 2022, vol. 157, num. 102882, p. 1-18 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/199542 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102882 |
ISSN: | 0304-3878 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Economia) |
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