Economic shocks, health, and social protection: The effect of COVID‐19 income shocks on health and mitigation through cash transfers in South Africa
Julius Ohrnberger, 2022 · Health Economics
The loss of a household's main income source following South Africa's COVID-19 lockdown reduced individual self-rated health by 0.237 points (around 0.2 standard deviations).
Estimativa · Self-rated health score (0 = poor to 4 = excellent)
-0,237 [-0,300; -0,174]
points on a 0-4 scale · calculado a partir do erro-padrão
p < 0.01
- Desenho
- Diferenças em diferenças. Difference-in-differences comparing individuals in households that lost vs. did not lose their main income source
- População
- Adults aged 18 and older in South Africa, tracked across NIDS (2008–2018) and NIDS-CRAM wave 1 (May–June 2020)
- Amostra
- 30.490 · Person-wave observations across 6,437 individuals
Onde está o número
Table 2, column (1), row 'DD'
DD | −0.237*** (0.032)
Contexto
What changed: Households suffered the sudden loss of their main income source following the nationwide lockdown on March 27, 2020. Comparison: Difference-in-differences comparing exposed to unexposed individuals across five pre-lockdown survey waves and one post-lockdown wave. Limits: Relies on self-reported health ratings and self-reported income loss during an acute pandemic disruption.
Caminho no grafo
- FamíliaCondições externas (não é política)
- MecanismoAjuste a choques via desinvestimento infantil
- EixoSaúde
MAGI só cita evidência deste instrumento
Lugares do estudo
- South Africa · País · ZA
- Licença
- CC-BY
- Revisão
- Extraído por máquina, não revisadoExtraído por: gemini-3.8-flash, 2026-10-23