Caron, Laura and Tiongson, Erwin R (2021) The pandemic poverty penalty: how COVID-19 complicates our measure of household well-being. LSE COVID-19 Blog (15 Jun 2021). Blog Entry.
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Abstract
Some countries measure well-being, including inequalities in well-being, by consumption. But when people no longer travel to work or eat in restaurants because of COVID, the assumed relationship between spending and well-being – already loose, because of the poverty penalty – breaks down. Laura Caron (Columbia) and Erwin R Tiongson (Georgetown) say economists need to become better attuned to new sources of inequality.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Blog Entry) |
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| Official URL: | https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Aug 2021 14:42 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Sep 2025 13:21 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/111111 |
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