Understanding the Racial and Income Gap in COVID-19: Essential Workers

Ruchi Avtar, Rajashri Chakrabarti and Maxim Pinkovskiy

No 20210112d, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: This is the fourth and final post in this series aimed at understanding the gap in COVID-19 intensity by race and by income. The previous three posts focused on the role of mediating variables—such as uninsurance rates, comorbidities, and health resource in the first post; public transportation, and home crowding in the second; and social distancing, pollution, and age composition in the third—in explaining the racial and income gap in the incidence of COVID-19. In this post, we now investigate the role of employment in essential services in explaining this gap.

Keywords: COVID-19; race; heterogeneity; essential workers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-01-12
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Note: Heterogeneity Series V: The Racial and Income Gap in COVID-19
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