Relative deprivation, inequality and the Covid-19 pandemic

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ID4595253
AutoresDipesh Chakrabarty (0000-0003-0637-644X, Charles Darwin University, autor correspondente), Debajyoti Chakrabarty, Bela Bhatia (0000-0001-8652-0039, Charles Darwin University), Bhanu Bhatia, Maneka Jayasinghe (0000-0002-3613-4073, Charles Darwin University), David Low (0000-0001-6198-5008, Charles Darwin University)
Ano2023
Volume324
Páginas115858
Data de publicação2023-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Science & Medicine (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115858
PMID36989836
OpenAlexW4327921321
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas55

There is a growing concern that inequalities are hindering health outcomes. This paper's primary objective is to investigate the role of relative deprivation and inequality in explaining the daily spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. For this purpose, we use secondary cross-sectional data across 119 (developed and developing) countries from January 2020 - to April 2021. For the empirical analysis, we use a recent dynamic panel data modelling approach that allows us to identify the role of time-invariant variables such as degree of globalisation, political freedom and income inequality on the dynamics of the pandemic and fatality rates across countries. We find that new cases per million and fatality rates are highly persistent processes. After controlling for time-varying mobility statistics from the Google mobility database and region-specific dummy variables, the two significant factors that explain the severity of Covid-19 spread in a country are per-capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Yitzhaki's relative income deprivation index. Lagged value of new cases per million significantly explains cross-country variations in the daily case fatality rates. A higher proportion of the older population and pollution increased fatality rates while better medical infrastructure reduced it

Case fatality rate · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Demographic economics · Development economics · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economics · Environmental health · Geography · Gross domestic product · Inequality · Pandemic · Panel data · Per capita · Political science · Population · Relative deprivation · Sociology · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Demography · Health disparities and outcomes · Mathematics · Medicine