of benefit-cost analysis, utilitarianism, and prioritarianism in evaluating COVID-19-related policies. The relative … less aggressive control policies. Utilitarianism and prioritarianism, in that order, increasingly favor income … likely than utilitarianism or benefit-cost analysis to target young and socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals in the …

When South Africa implemented its non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) (its "lockdown") to stem the COVID-19 … pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown was in disarray: the number of confirmed … than 50,000 businesses, to have government end the lockdown altogether. In this paper we argue that both government and the …

the three different national level restrictive measures: the school closure, the main lockdown and the shutdown of non …, the side effects of the main lockdown on social and economic inequalities. …

India may influence COVID-19's impact through the differential impact of lockdown policies across caste and religious groups …, as well as across states and urban-rural areas. In so doing, we build upon Egger et al. (2020)'s lockdown readiness index … pronounced horizontal inequality, but also because it adopted an especially stringent lockdown policy. Our analysis illustrates …