Economic Recovery but Stagnating Mental Health During a Global Pandemic? Evidence from Ghana and South Africa [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的全球经济复苏与心理健康状况的改善？来自南非和冈比亚的证据
Kathrin Durizzo,Edward Asiedu,Antoinette van der Merwe et al.
Kathrin Durizzo et al.
Ghana and South Africa proactively implemented lockdowns very early in the pandemic. We analyze a three-wave panel of households in Accra and Greater Johannesburg to study the mental and economic well-being of the urban poor between the COV...
Sarah Kuypers,Ive Marx,Brian Nolan et al.
Sarah Kuypers et al.
Measures taken to contain the spread of COVID-19 affected some workers' capability to work and hence earning more than others. The initial impact may have been mitigated, for instance by relying on savings and assets, but access to these bu...
GDP, wellbeing, and health: thoughts on the 2017 round of the International Comparison Program [0.03%]
GDP、福利和健康：关于2017年国际比较计划的一点思考
Angus Deaton,Paul Schreyer
Angus Deaton
In March 2020, the International Comparison Project published its latest results, for the calendar year 2017. This round presents common-unit or purchasing-power-parity data for 176 countries on Gross Domestic Product and its components. We...
Arthur Grimes
Arthur Grimes
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, New Zealand's official statistical agency (Stats NZ) moved quickly to supplement the quarterly Household Labour Force Survey with wellbeing measures from the General Social Survey. The first suppleme...
Excess Mortality Versus COVID-19 Death Rates: A Spatial Analysis of Socioeconomic Disparities and Political Allegiance Across U.S. States [0.03%]
基于美国各州新冠疫情死亡率和超额死亡率的空间分析及其与社会经济差异和政治倾向的关系
Janine Aron,John Muellbauer
Janine Aron
Excess mortality is a more robust measure than the counts of COVID-19 deaths typically used in epidemiological and spatial studies. Measurement issues around excess mortality, considering data quality and comparability both internationally ...
David Loschiavo,Mariano Graziano
David Loschiavo
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a huge surge in deposits, although little is known about how this was distributed. This paper overcomes the lack of timely micro-data on households' liquidity by looking at supervisory data, introducing a new me...
Andrew E Clark,Anthony Lepinteur
Andrew E Clark
We use data from the COME-HERE longitudinal survey collected by the University of Luxembourg to assess the effects of the policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic on life satisfaction in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden over the co...
Risky Asset Holdings During Covid-19 and their Distributional Impact: Evidence from Germany [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的风险资产持有及其分配效应——来自德国的证据
Lukas Menkhoff,Carsten Schröder
Lukas Menkhoff
We present evidence from a repeated survey on risky asset holdings carried out on a representative sample of the German population six times between April and June 2020. Given the size of the Covid-19 shock, we find little evidence of portf...
Welfare Resilience at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Selection of European Countries: Impact on Public Finance and Household Incomes [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情在欧洲部分国家初期的福利韧性：对公共财政和家庭收入的影响
Olga Cantó,Francesco Figari,Carlo V Fiorio et al.
Olga Cantó et al.
This paper assesses the impact on household incomes of the COVID-19 pandemic and governments' policy responses in April 2020 in four large and severely hit EU countries: Belgium, Italy, Spain and the UK. We provide comparative evidence on t...
Ragui Assaad,Caroline Krafft,John Roemer et al.
Ragui Assaad et al.
Most explanations of the recent political upheavals in Egypt since 2011 include a reference to rising inequality, but the usual indicators of income inequality in Egypt do not support that inequality was on the rise prior to the uprisings. ...