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In March 2020, shelter-in-place and social-distancing policies have been enforced or recommended all over the world to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. However, strict containment is hardly achievable in low-income countries, as large parts of population are forced to continue income-generating...
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Strict containment limits the spread of pandemics but is difficult to achieve when people must continue to work to 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...
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under the formal (de jure) lockdown policies assuming perfect compliance with the shares under de facto lockdowns where … there is some degree of non-compliance. We then estimate individuals' potential labour income losses and examine changes in … of non-compliance as a coping strategy during the lockdowns. Social distancing measures have led to an increase in …
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