The Interaction between Youthfulness and COVID-19 in a Bio-Socio-Economic Context: A Rare Event Analysis

Ibrahima Diallo

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Abstract: This paper studies the relationship between Youthfulness and COVID-19 using a wide sample of countries around the world. It utilizes the new Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) estimation technique to analyze the effect of being young on the probability of high COVID-19 modeled as a rare event. The results illustrate that an increase in young people in a country reduces the probability of high COVID-19. The empirical findings also show how numerous other Bio-SocioEconomic variables affect the probability of high COVID-19. The negative impact of Youthfulness on the probability of high COVID-19 is maintained when we control for subsamples of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Non-Least Developed Countries, and perform several other robustness checks.

Keywords: COVID-19; CORONAVIRUS; SARS-CoV-2; Youth; Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) Distribution; Infectious Diseases (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-02-28
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