Intergenerational Coresidence and the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States

Luca Pensieroso, Alessandro Sommacal and Gaia Spolverini

No 10/2021, Working Papers from University of Verona, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper investigates the relation between intergenerational coresidence and mortality from Covid-19 in 2020. Using a crosssection of U.S. counties, we show that this association is positive, significant, and robust to the inclusion of several demographic and socio-economic controls. Furthermore, using historical evidence from pre-pandemic years (1980-2019) and the Spanish influenza (1918), we argue that this positive association is specific to the Covid-19 pandemic only.

Keywords: family economics; Spanish influenza; mortality; disease; health economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 J10 J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-07
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