avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce … substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using data on human mobility and poverty rates in 729 subnational regions … changes between higher- and lower-poverty regions. Conditional on country-day fixed effects, shelter-in-place orders decrease …

distribution restricts the evolution of the poverty measuresto be stable... … measured by the Gini coeffcient isconstant, dening the poverty line as a fraction of a central tendency of theliving standard …