TY - JOUR A1 - Belot, Michèle A1 - Syngjoo, Choi A1 - Tripodi, Egon A1 - Jamison, Julian C. A1 - Papageorge, Nicolas W. A1 - van den Broek-Altenburg, Eline T1 - Unequal Consequences of Covid 19: representative evidence from six countries JF - Review of Economics of the Household N2 - Covid-19 and the measures taken to contain it have led to unprecedented constraints on work and leisure activities, across the world. This paper uses nationally representative surveys to document how people of different ages and incomes have been affected in the early phase of the pandemic. The data was collected in six countries (China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, UK, and US) in the third week of April 2020. First, we document changes in job circumstances and social activities. Second, we document self-reported negative and positive consequences of the crisis on well-being. We find that young people have experienced more drastic changes to their life and have been most affected economically and psychologically. There is less of a systematic pattern across income groups. While lower income groups have been more affected economically, higher income groups have experienced more changes in their social life and spending. A large fraction of people of low and high income groups report negative effects on well-being. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-021-09560-z VL - 19 SP - 769 EP - 783 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Papageorge, Nicholas W. A1 - Zahn, Matthew V. A1 - Belot, Michèle A1 - van den Broek-Altenburg, Eline A1 - Choi, Syngjoo A1 - Jamison, Julian C. A1 - Tripodi, Egon T1 - Socio-demographic factors associated with self-protecting behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic JF - Journal of Population Economics N2 - Given the role of human behavior in the spread of disease, it is vital to understand what drives people to engage in or refrain from health-related behaviors during a pandemic. This paper examines factors associated with the adoption of self-protective health behaviors, such as social distancing and mask wearing, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in the USA. These behaviors not only reduce an individual’s own risk of infection but also limit the spread of disease to others. Despite these dual benefits, universal adoption of these behaviors is not assured. We focus on the role of socioeconomic differences in explaining behavior, relying on data collected in April 2020 during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. The data include information on income, gender and race along with unique variables relevant to the current pandemic, such as work arrangements and housing quality. We find that higher income is associated with larger changes in self-protective behaviors. These gradients are partially explained by the fact that people with less income are more likely to report circumstances that make adopting self-protective behaviors more difficult, such as an inability to tele-work. Both in the USA and elsewhere, policies that assume universal compliance with self-protective measures—or that otherwise do not account for socioeconomic differences in the costs of doing so—are unlikely to be effective or sustainable. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-020-00818-x VL - 34 SP - 691 EP - 738 ER -