全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP16424 Women's Well-being During a Pandemic and its Containment

G2TT

来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP16424
	DP16424 Women's Well-being During a Pandemic and its Containment
	Gaurav Khanna; Corinne Low; Manisha Shah; Sreyashi Sharmin; Alessandra Voena
发表日期	2021-08-06
出版年	2021
语种	英语
摘要	The COVID-19 pandemic brought the dual crises of disease and the containment policies designed to mitigate it. Yet, there is little evidence on the impacts of these policies on women, who are likely to be especially vulnerable, in lower-income countries. We conduct a large phone survey and leverage India's geographically-varying containment policies to estimate the association between both the pandemic and its containment policies, and measures of women's well-being, including mental health and food security. On aggregate, the pandemic resulted in dramatic income losses, increases in food insecurity, and declines in female mental health. While potentially crucial to stem the spread of COVID-19 cases, we find that greater prevalence of containment policies is associated with increased food insecurity, particularly for women, and with reduced female mental health. Average containment levels are associated with a 39-40% increase in the likelihood of sadness, depression, and hopelessness among women and with an increase in the likelihood that women feel more worried by 45% of the variable mean. Particularly vulnerable groups of women, those with daughters and those living in female-headed households, experience larger declines in mental health.
主题	Development Economics ; Labour Economics
关键词	Covid-19 India Gender Mental health Depression Nutrition
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp16424
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/545385
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gaurav Khanna,Corinne Low,Manisha Shah,et al. DP16424 Women's Well-being During a Pandemic and its Containment. 2021.