Inequalities in the Times of a Pandemic

Stantcheva, Stefanie

doi:10.3386/w29657

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“…Findings of this study reveal that being orphaned due to COVID-19 presents a double challenge of living and livelihood to children. This is because the pandemic has already widened inequalities and exacerbated suffering everywhere; undermining progress on global poverty, clean water, social welfare and more (Hoyt et al, 2021;Marmot, 2020;Mbamba & Ndemole, 2021;Stantcheva, 2022;Yeboaa et al, 2022). This leaves children who lose their caregivers at the mercy of alternative care systems like foster or kinship care.…”

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confidence: 99%

Children Have Faced Several Challenges: Analyzing Reports of Children Who Became Orphans Caused by COVID-19

Hassan

2022

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Many children have become orphans due to COVID-19. Their experiences have been under reported due to focus on other areas. This study explores adverse social consequences of children who became orphans due to COVID-19. With the aid of a documentary review approach, this study extracts and analyzes reports from 11 highly ranked news reporting sites in the United States of America that contained expert opinions and narratives on the negative social consequences of being orphaned by COVID-19. Analysis of data followed the narrative thematic analysis procedure. The outstanding themes identified are the loss of caregivers and primary social support system, and increased risk of mental health concerns. The findings demonstrate the need for emergency financial support for COVID-19 related orphaned children and the involvement of experts trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavior Therapies (TF-CBT) to help children’s psychosocial needs.

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Children Have Faced Several Challenges: Analyzing Reports of Children Who Became Orphans Caused by COVID-19

Hassan

2022

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“…None of these researches utilizes granular data as in this work, which allow to specifically focus on the school-age population while accounting for a number of confounding factors and, therefore, to formulate a more accurate evaluation of school closures as a mitigation policy. This is even more important given that, as mentioned in Section 1, school closures imply a host of negative effects, such as losses in human capital accumulation and earnings over the lifetime (see, e.g., Agostinelli et al, 2022;Psacharopoulos et al, 2021;Fuchs-Schundeln et al, 2020, andStantcheva, 2022, for an updated account of the literature on this point). 2 Finally, a growing literature started to analyze the impact of vaccinations on Covid-19 propagation.…”

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“…The recent literature addressing the issue, often exploiting school openings for identification purposes, found mixed results (see Svaleryd & Vlachos, 2022, for a detailed survey). On the other hand, closing the schools raised concerns on the costs in terms of lost opportunities of accumulating human capital, as well as on the psychological costs of the students and distress of students' families (see Stantcheva, 2022, and references therein).…”

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School‐age vaccination, school openings and Covid‐19 diffusion

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This article investigates the relationship between school openings and Covid‐19 diffusion when school‐age vaccination becomes available. The analysis relies on a unique geo‐referenced high frequency database on age of vaccination, Covid‐19 cases and hospitalization indicators from the Italian region of Sicily. The study focuses on the change of Covid‐19 diffusion after school opening in a homogeneous geographical territory (i.e., with the same control measures and surveillance systems, centrally coordinated by the Regional Government). The identification of causal effects derives from a comparison of the change in cases before and after school opening in the school year 2020/21, when vaccination was not available, and in 2021/22, when the vaccination campaign targeted individuals of age 12–19 and above 19. Results indicate that, while school opening determined an increase in the growth rate of Covid‐19 cases in 2020/2021, this effect has been substantially reduced by school‐age vaccination in 2021/2022. In particular, we find that an increase of approximately 10% in the vaccination rate of school‐age population reduces the growth rate of Covid‐19 cases after school opening by approximately 1%.

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“…As psychological well-being is affected both directly and indirectly via the pandemic and the NPIs (i.e., losing one's job and housing, getting a divorce because of the aforementioned, or because of being quarantined for months), this may lead to more inequalities in terms of income, but also well-being [cf. ( 46 , 235 )]. General health and well-being during the crisis have been lowered [for a review see ( 236 )], especially so for vulnerable groups and disadvantaged countries ( 237 , 238 ).…”

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Aggressive measures, rising inequalities, and mass formation during the COVID-19 crisis: An overview and proposed way forward

Schippers

Ioannidis

Joffe

2022

Front. Public Health

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A series of aggressive restrictive measures were adopted around the world in 2020–2022 to attempt to prevent SARS-CoV-2 from spreading. However, it has become increasingly clear the most aggressive (lockdown) response strategies may involve negative side-effects such as a steep increase in poverty, hunger, and inequalities. Several economic, educational, and health repercussions have fallen disproportionately on children, students, young workers, and especially on groups with pre-existing inequalities such as low-income families, ethnic minorities, and women. This has led to a vicious cycle of rising inequalities and health issues. For example, educational and financial security decreased along with rising unemployment and loss of life purpose. Domestic violence surged due to dysfunctional families being forced to spend more time with each other. In the current narrative and scoping review, we describe macro-dynamics that are taking place because of aggressive public health policies and psychological tactics to influence public behavior, such as mass formation and crowd behavior. Coupled with the effect of inequalities, we describe how these factors can interact toward aggravating ripple effects. In light of evidence regarding the health, economic and social costs, that likely far outweigh potential benefits, the authors suggest that, first, where applicable, aggressive lockdown policies should be reversed and their re-adoption in the future should be avoided. If measures are needed, these should be non-disruptive. Second, it is important to assess dispassionately the damage done by aggressive measures and offer ways to alleviate the burden and long-term effects. Third, the structures in place that have led to counterproductive policies should be assessed and ways should be sought to optimize decision-making, such as counteracting groupthink and increasing the level of reflexivity. Finally, a package of scalable positive psychology interventions is suggested to counteract the damage done and improve humanity's prospects.

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Inequalities in the Times of a Pandemic

Cited by 30 publications

References 43 publications

Children Have Faced Several Challenges: Analyzing Reports of Children Who Became Orphans Caused by COVID-19

Children Have Faced Several Challenges: Analyzing Reports of Children Who Became Orphans Caused by COVID-19

School‐age vaccination, school openings and Covid‐19 diffusion

Aggressive measures, rising inequalities, and mass formation during the COVID-19 crisis: An overview and proposed way forward

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