| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP15131 |
| DP15131 Slums and Pandemics | |
| Luiz Brotherhood; Tiago Cavalcanti; Daniel Da Mata; Cezar Santos | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-08-05 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper studies the role of slums in shaping the economic and health dynamics of pandemics. Using data from millions of mobile phones in Brazil, an event-study analysis shows that residents of overcrowded slums engaged in less social distancing after the outbreak of Covid-19. We develop a choice-theoretic equilibrium model in which poorer agents live in high-density slums and others do not. The model is calibrated to Rio de Janeiro. Slum dwellers account for a disproportionately high number of infections and deaths. In a counterfactual scenario without slums, deaths fall overall but increase in non-slum neighborhoods. 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 in detriment of others, highlighting important distributional effects. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; Macroeconomics and Growth |
| 关键词 | Covid-19 Slums Health Social distancing Public policies |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp15131 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/544092 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Luiz Brotherhood,Tiago Cavalcanti,Daniel Da Mata,et al. DP15131 Slums and Pandemics. 2020. |
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