Social Repercussions of Pandemics /

Epidemics may have social scarring effects, increasing the likelihood of social unrest. They may also have mitigating effect, suppressing unrest by dissuading social activities. Using a new monthly panel on social unrest in 130 countries, we find a positive cross-sectional relationship between socia...

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Glavni avtor: Barrett, Philip
Drugi avtorji: Chen, Sophia
Format: Revija
Jezik:English
Izdano: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021.
Serija:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/021
Online dostop:Full text available on IMF
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520 3 |a Epidemics may have social scarring effects, increasing the likelihood of social unrest. They may also have mitigating effect, suppressing unrest by dissuading social activities. Using a new monthly panel on social unrest in 130 countries, we find a positive cross-sectional relationship between social unrest and epidemics. But the relationship reverses in the short run, implying that the mitigating effect dominates in the short run. Recent trends in social unrest immediately before and after the COVID-19 outbreak are consistent with this historic evidence. It is reasonable to expect that, as the pandemic fades, unrest may reemerge in locations where it previously existed. 
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