Relative deprivation, inequality and the Covid-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: 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 f

SUBMITTER: Chakrabarty D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10027304 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature