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The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on socioeconomic inequality in psychological distress in the UK: an update
Gao, Xiaoying; Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2021
by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), to include the second national lockdown up to March 2021. …
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The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on inequality of opportunity in psychological distress in the UK
Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2020
Health Questionnaire (GHQ), before (Wave 9) and at the initial peak (April 2020) of the pandemic. Based on a Caseness measure … systematic increase in total inequality in the Likert GHQ-12 score. However, measures of IOp have not increased. Specifically … is, to some extent, a leveller as far as psychological distress is considered. A Shapley-Shorrocks decomposition analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239440
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The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on inequalityof opportunity in psychological distress in the UK
Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2020
Health Questionnaire (GHQ), before (Wave 9) and at the initial peak (April 2020) of the pandemic. Based on a Caseness measure … systematic increase in total inequality in the Likert GHQ-12 score. However, measures of IOp have not increased. Specifically … is, to some extent, a leveller as far as psychological distress is considered. A Shapley-Shorrocks decomposition analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222180
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Death and destitution: the global distribution of welfare losses from the COVID-19 pandemic
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Sterck, Olivier; Mahler, … - 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks to quantify and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life as a common metric. We estimate that almost 20 million...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518090
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Impact of COVID-19 on poverty and living standards in Ghana : a micro-perspective
Bukari, Chei; Essilfie, Gloria; Aning-Agyei, Millicent … - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-23
The novel Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has become a global epidemic, hit Ghana on 12 March 2020 and, in less than a week, increased by over 300% with two deaths. As of 11 August 2020, Ghana had recorded over 41,000 cases with over 215 deaths. This study seeks to provide a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013183761
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The Consumption, Income, and Well-Being of Single Mother Headed Families 25 Years After Welfare Reform
Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce; Sullivan, James X. - 2021
We investigate how material well-being has changed over time for single mother headed families—the primary group affected by welfare reform and other policy changes of the 1990s. We focus on consumption as well as other indicators including components of consumption, measures of housing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213593
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Social effect of Covid-19 : estimates and alternatives for Latin America and the Caribbean
Acevedo, Ivonne; Castellani, Francesca; Flores, Iván; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 29 (2020), pp. 1-44
This document offers estimates of the possible changes in the social structure of the countries of Latin America derived from the consequent economic contraction from the Covid-19 pandemic and explores the possible costs and benefits of different types of interventions to cushion its impact. The...
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The Distributive Impact of Fiscal Policy in Cameroon : Tax and Benefit Incidence
Atemnkeng, Johannes Tabi; Akwi, Tafah; Anzah, Etoh - 2018
Most fiscal incidence studies neither analyze simultaneously the tax and benefit incidence (simply known as net fiscal incidence) nor actually relate poverty indices to fiscal impact. This paper jointly and separately examines the redistributive and poverty effects of the tax and transfer...
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Breaking the Fall : Successful Homeless Interventions in the COVID Pandemic
Flaming, Daniel; Pickens, Seth; Burns, Patrick - 2023
Government income and housing interventions during the COVID pandemic had demonstrable benefits in reducing the growth of homelessness. Comparisons of projected versus actual growth in Los Angeles County from 2020 to 2022 validate the benefit of these interventions.This report offers three types...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264568
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Covid-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being : Evidence from Google Trends
Brodeur, Abel - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has led many governments to implement lockdowns. While lockdowns may help to contain the spread of the virus, they may result in substantial damage to population well-being. We use Google Trends data to test whether the lockdowns implemented in Europe and America led to...
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