Mobility under the COVID-19 Pandemic: Asymmetric Effects across Gender and Age
December 11, 2020
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Summary
Lockdowns and voluntary social distancing led to significant reduction in people’s mobility. Yet, there is scant evidence on the heterogeneous effects across segments of the population. Using unique mobility indicators based on anonymized and aggregate data provided by Vodafone for Italy, Portugal, and Spain, we find that lockdowns had a larger impact on the mobility of women and younger cohorts. Younger people also experienced a sharper drop in mobility in response to rising COVID-19 infections. Our findings, which are consistent across estimation methods and robust to a variety of tests, warn about a possible widening of gender and inter-generational inequality and provide important inputs for the formulation of targeted policies.
Subject: Aging, COVID-19, Education, Gender, Women
Keywords: age., government lockdown, impact of lockdown, lockdown, lockdown impulse, lockdown measure, lockdown stringency, mobility, WP
Pages:
32
Volume:
2020
DOI:
Issue:
282
Series:
Working Paper No. 2020/282
Stock No:
WPIEA2020282
ISBN:
9781513563961
ISSN:
1018-5941
