Impacts of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Consumption: Household Data from India

Anirban Sanyal, Nirvikar Singh and Rolly Kapoor
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Rolly Kapoor: Department of Economics, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States

Asian Development Review (ADR), 2023, vol. 40, issue 02, 211-240

Abstract: We quantify the impacts on consumption expenditure and the patterns following India’s initial sudden lockdown in response to the coronavirus disease pandemic and the gradual relaxation that followed. We use household survey data from a representative Indian state, Punjab. We separate the effects between rural versus urban households, and whether the households were female headed or had daily laborers. While the urban population cut back expenditure across all categories, rural households shifted toward basic commodities and cut back more on other expenditure. Rural households that included daily-wage laborers were the most severely affected.

Keywords: consumption expenditure; consumption variety; COVID-19; lockdown (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 D12 D31 D33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1142/S011611052350018X

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