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Slums and Pandemics Brotherhood, Luiz Cavalcanti, Tiago Da Mata, Daniel Santos, Cezar COVID-19 Marginació social Barris Política de despeses públiques COVID-19 Social marginality Neighborhood Government spending policy How do slums shape the economic and health dynamics of pandemics? A difference-in-differences analysis using millions of mobile phones in Brazil shows that residents of overcrowded slums engaged in less social distancing after the outbreak of Covid-19. We develop and calibrate a choice-theoretic equilibrium model in which individuals are heterogeneous in income and some people live in high-density slums. Slum residents account for a disproportionately high number of infections and deaths and, without slums, deaths increase in non-slum neighborhoods. Policy analysis of reallocation of medical resources, lockdowns and cash transfers produce heterogeneous effects across groups. Policy simulations indicate that: reallocating medical resources cuts deaths and raises output and the welfare of both groups; mild lockdowns favor slum individuals by mitigating the demand for hospital beds, whereas strict confinements mostly delay the evolution of the pandemic; and cash transfers benefit slum residents to the detriment of others, highlighting important distributional effects. 2023-06-21T07:53:08Z 2023-06-21T07:53:08Z 2022-06-01 2023-06-21T07:53:08Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 0304-3878 https://hdl.handle.net/2445/199542 727926 eng Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102882 Journal of Development Economics, 2022, vol. 157, num. 102882, p. 1-18 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102882 cc-by-nc-nd (c) Elsevier, 2022 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 18 p. application/pdf Elsevier Articles publicats en revistes (Economia)