Gimme shelter: Social distancing and income support in times of pandemic
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 data...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Aminjonov, Ulugbek Bargain, Olivier Bernard, Tanguy |
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| description | 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 data on human mobility and poverty rates in 729 subnational regions of low- and middle-income countries during the first year of COVID-19. Shelter-in-place orders decrease work-related mobility in general, but much less so in the poorest regions. Emergency income support significantly mitigates this mobility gap between regions. It reduces by half the additional contagion caused, via the mobility channel, by regional poverty differences. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1434752025-12-02T21:03:24Z Gimme shelter: Social distancing and income support in times of pandemic Aminjonov, Ulugbek Bargain, Olivier Bernard, Tanguy income policies covid-19 social protection physical distancing quarantine poverty pandemics 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 data on human mobility and poverty rates in 729 subnational regions of low- and middle-income countries during the first year of COVID-19. Shelter-in-place orders decrease work-related mobility in general, but much less so in the poorest regions. Emergency income support significantly mitigates this mobility gap between regions. It reduces by half the additional contagion caused, via the mobility channel, by regional poverty differences. 2021-09-21 2024-05-22T12:14:23Z 2024-05-22T12:14:23Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143475 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Aminjonov, Ulugbek; Bargain, Olivier; and Bernard, Tanguy. 2021. Gimme shelter: Social distancing and income support in times of pandemic. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2042. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134575. |
| spellingShingle | income policies covid-19 social protection physical distancing quarantine poverty pandemics Aminjonov, Ulugbek Bargain, Olivier Bernard, Tanguy Gimme shelter: Social distancing and income support in times of pandemic |
| title | Gimme shelter: Social distancing and income support in times of pandemic |
| title_full | Gimme shelter: Social distancing and income support in times of pandemic |
| title_fullStr | Gimme shelter: Social distancing and income support in times of pandemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gimme shelter: Social distancing and income support in times of pandemic |
| title_short | Gimme shelter: Social distancing and income support in times of pandemic |
| title_sort | gimme shelter social distancing and income support in times of pandemic |
| topic | income policies covid-19 social protection physical distancing quarantine poverty pandemics |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143475 |
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