The macroeconomics of pandemics in developing countries: an application to Uganda
Working Paper Centre for Global Development(2020)
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How should policies to control the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic differ across countries? We extend recent contributions integrating economic and epidemiological models for the United States to a developing country context, Uganda Differences in demography, comorbidities, and health systems affect mortality risk;lower incomes affect agents' willingness to forego consumption to reduce disease risk For a broad range of life valuations supported by the literature, optimal containment is significantly less restrictive in the latter context, a normative implication contradicted by positive findings of similarly strict lockdowns across rich and poor countries We explore biased beliefs about infection risk as a possible explanation
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