 Intergenerational residence patterns and Covid-19 fatalities in the EU and the US*Ainoa Aparicio and Shoshana Grossbard Economics & Human Biology, 2020, vol. 39, issue C Abstract: We study how patterns of intergenerational residence possibly influence fatalities from Covid-19. We use aggregate data on Covid-19 deaths, the share of young adults living with their parents, and a number of other statistics, for 29 European countries associated with the European Union and all US states. Controlling for population size, we find that more people died from Covid in countries or states with higher rates of intergenerational co-residence. This positive correlation persists even when controlling for date of first death, presence of lockdown, Covid tests per capita, hospital beds per capita, proportion of elderly, GDP per capita, government’s political orientation, percentage urban, and rental prices. The positive association between co-residence and fatalities is led by the US. Keywords: Covid-19; Intergenerational co-residence; Mortality; Family arrangements (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ehbiol:v:39:y:2020:i:c:s1570677x20302045 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2020.100934 Access Statistics for this article Economics & Human Biology is currently edited by J. Komlos, Inas R Kelly and Joerg Baten More articles in Economics & Human Biology from Elsevier |
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