COVID-19 and Inequalities*

Richard Blundell; Monica Costa Dias; Robert Joyce; Xiaowei Xu

doi:10.1111/1475-5890.12232

COVID-19 and Inequalities*

Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias^*, Robert Joyce, Xiaowei Xu

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School of Economics

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This paper brings together evidence from various data sources and the most recent studies to describe what we know so far about the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on inequalities across several key domains of life, including employment and ability to earn, family life and health. We show how these new fissures interact with existing inequalities along various key dimensions, including socio-economic status, education, age, gender, ethnicity and geography. We find that the deep underlying inequalities and policy challenges that we already had are crucial in understanding the complex impacts of the pandemic itself and our response to it, and that the crisis does in itself have the potential to exacerbate some of these pre-existing inequalities fairly directly. Moreover, it seems likely that the current crisis will leave legacies that will impact inequalities in the long term. These possibilities are not all disequalising, but many are.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	291-319
Number of pages	29
Journal	Fiscal Studies
Volume	41
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5890.12232
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2020

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from the Nuffield Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. The authors are also grateful for co-funding from the ESRC-funded Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at IFS (grant number ES/M010147/1) and from the European Union Horizon 2020 programme on Dynamics of Inequality across the Life-Course (Dial ES00142).

Funding Information:
Funding from the Nuffield Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. The authors are also grateful for co‐funding from the ESRC‐funded Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at IFS (grant number ES/M010147/1) and from the European Union Horizon 2020 programme on Dynamics of Inequality across the Life‐Course (Dial ES00142).

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© 2020 The Authors. Fiscal Studies published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. on behalf of Institute for Fiscal Studies

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COVID-19
employment
ethnicity
health
inequality

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