Arbeitspapier
Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparing Alternative Value Frameworks
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced countries to make difficult ethical choices, e.g., how to balance public health and socioeconomic activity and whom to prioritize in allocating vaccines or other scarce medical resources. We discuss the implications of benefit-cost analysis, utilitarianism, and prioritarianism in evaluating COVID-19-related policies. The relative regressivity of COVID-19 burdens and control policy costs determines whether increased sensitivity to distribution supports more or less aggressive control policies. Utilitarianism and prioritarianism, in that order, increasingly favor income redistribution mechanisms compared with benefit-cost analysis. The concern for the worse-off implies that prioritarianism is more likely than utilitarianism or benefit-cost analysis to target young and socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals in the allocation of scarce vaccine doses.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14181
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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prioritarianism
benefit-cost analysis
utilitarianism
COVID-19
vaccine allocation
lockdown
control policies
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Ferranna, Maddalena
Sevilla, J.P.
Bloom, David E.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
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2021
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:22 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Ferranna, Maddalena
- Sevilla, J.P.
- Bloom, David E.
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2021
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