Handbook on Inequality and COVID-19

Buch | Hardcover

404 Seiten

2025
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-0275-8 (ISBN)

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In this comprehensive Handbook, Kenneth Couch brings together expert contributors to provide insights into the impact of COVID-19 on new and pre-existing inequalities in health, work, and education. While sharper impacts on pre-existing cross-group disparities were often resolved by vaccinations and the lifting of restrictions, this important work indicates that in many respects disadvantaged groups will endure lasting negative effects from the pandemic.An interdisciplinary and international range of authors investigate disparities in mortality, healthcare spending, domestic violence, and mental health for people of different genders, ethnicities, immigration statuses, and age, providing novel contributions to post-pandemic scholarship and introducing innovative empirical research. They emphasize the effect of the pandemic on the labor market, including the ramifications on minority and migrant employment and the gender-specific outcomes of working from home. The Handbook also underscores the negative and heterogeneous effects of the pandemic on school enrollment, student well-being, and academic performance across all school ages. Ultimately, this Handbook provides a detailed overview of contemporary post-pandemic research into inequality.

The Handbook on Inequality and COVID-19 is an essential read for academics, scholars, and researchers of public and social policy, particularly those focusing on health policy, economics, education, and inequality.

Edited by Kenneth A. Couch, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Connecticut, USA

Contents
1 Inequality and COVID-19 1
Kenneth A. Couch
PART I COVID-19 AND INEQUALITY IN HEALTH
2 The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy by race and
ethnicity in the United States 15
Elizabeth Arias, Kenneth D. Kochanek, and Betzaida Tejada-Vera
3 COVID-19 and social distancing: do non-pharmaceutical-interventions
work (at least) in the short run? 35
David Bardey, Manuel Fernández, and Alexis Gravel
4 Regional differences in COVID-19 vaccination rates across Europe 52
Nicholas A. Jolly, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos, and Georgios Voucharas
5 Impact of COVID-19 on racial and ethnic disparities in out-of-pocket
health-care spending 72
Johanna Thunell, Patricia Ferido, and Julie Zissimopoulos
6 Effects of COVID-19 shutdowns on domestic violence in the United States 88
Yutong Chen, Amalia R. Miller, Carmit Segal, and Melissa K. Spencer
7 Racial and ethnic health disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic 105
Joseph Benitez, Charles Courtemanche, and Aaron Yelowitz
8 The effect of government COVID-19 containment measures on mental
health in China 119
Jingwei Huang and Wei Zheng
PART II COVID-19 AND LABOR MARKET INEQUALITY
9 The long-term impact of COVID-19 on minority employment by gender 135
Kenneth A. Couch, Robert W. Fairlie, and Huanan Xu
10 COVID-19, work from home and the organization of work time for
men and women in the United States 151
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, José Ignacio Giménez-Nadal and
Almudena Sevilla
11 Well-being throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: gendered
effects of daycare and school closures 167
Mathias Huebener, Sevrin Waights, and C. Katharina Spieß
12 Immigrant employment during the COVID-19 pandemic 183
George J. Borjas and Hugh Cassidy
13 Heterogeneity in labor supply and exits among older adults during the
COVID-19 pandemic 198
Gopi Shah Goda, Emilie Jackson, Lauren Hersch Nicholas, Rosemary
Rhodes, and Sarah S. Stith
14 Reviewing the impact of federal policy responses to COVID-19 on poverty 221
Gregory Acs, Linda Giannarelli, Laura Wheaton, and Sarah Minton
15 Enhanced unemployment insurance benefits in the United States during
COVID-19: equity and efficiency 239
Robert G. Valletta and Mary Yilma
PART III COVID-19 AND EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY
16 Evidence on the large negative and heterogenous effects of the
pandemic on student achievement 254
Ian Callen, Dan Goldhaber, and Emily Morton
17 Changes in public school enrollment: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic 278
Shaun M. Dougherty, Hannah C. Kistler, and Yerin Yoon
18 The COVID-19 pandemic: learning loss and educational inequalities in Italy 296
Dalit Contini, Marina Della Giusta, Maria Laura Di Tommaso and Daniela
Piazzalunga
19 The impact of COVID-19 on students’ social-emotional well-being 310
Jennifer Greif Green, Ruchi Mendiratta Khanna, Andrew Bacher-Hicks, and
Melissa Holt
20 COVID-19 and the health and well-being of preschool-aged children 325
Sirui Qiu and David Simon
21 COVID-19 and academic performance in higher education 341
Núria Rodríguez-Planas and Mehlika Ozsoy
22 Effects of COVID-19 on gender gaps in educational outcomes of
college students in Italy 364
Massimiliano Bratti and Enrico Lippo

Erscheinungsdatum	26.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Elgar Handbooks on Inequality
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-0353-0275-6 / 1035302756
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-0275-8 / 9781035302758
Zustand	Neuware