{"id":12619,"date":"2020-04-27T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T07:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=12619"},"modified":"2020-04-27T10:57:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T07:57:26","slug":"health-versus-wealth-on-the-distributional-effects-of-controlling-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/health-versus-wealth-on-the-distributional-effects-of-controlling-a-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Health versus wealth: On the distributional effects of controlling a pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Heathcote, Andrew Glover, Dirk Krueger, V\u00edctor R\u00edos-Rull<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-teaser\">\n<p>Large portions of many countries\u2019 economies have been shuttered to slow the spread of COVID-19. Why, three months into the pandemic, does the optimal policy response remain so controversial? This column examines how the welfare effects of shutdown policies vary across different types of households. The model predicts that some groups \u2013 young workers in sectors deemed non-essential \u2013 would benefit from ending the current shutdown, while others \u2013 the old \u2013 will surely lose. Current disagreements over when to end shutdowns are thus easy to understand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae:\u00a0<\/strong>Voxeu<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voxeu.org\/article\/distributional-effects-controlling-pandemic\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Heathcote, Andrew Glover, Dirk Krueger, V\u00edctor R\u00edos-Rull Large portions of many countries\u2019 economies have been shuttered to slow the spread of COVID-19. Why, three months into the pandemic, does the optimal policy response remain so controversial? This column examines how the welfare effects of shutdown policies vary across different types of households. The model [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,18,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-36","category-18","category-proposals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12620,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619\/revisions\/12620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}