The Economic Lives of Young Women in the Time of Ebola

Bandiera, Oriana; Buehren, Niklas; Goldstein, Markus; Rasul, Imran; Smurra, Andrea

doi:10.1596/31219

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“…Sex-disaggregated outcome data was presented in supplementary papers in almost all SAGE meetings from the 19th meeting in March 2020. There were also concerns related to the risks posed by COVID-19 for pregnant women and the potential for transmission to foetuses in utero [8,14,19].…”

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Why we Need a Gender Advisor on SAGE

Wenham¹,

Herten-Crabb

2021

LSE Public Policy Review

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The UK government has largely failed to consider gender in its COVID-19 response, despite the many and varied differential impacts of policy interventions on women and men. Since government policy is informed by the advice ministers receive, we sought to understand whether and how gender had been considered by the UK government's COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE). This paper uses two forms of policy analysis to assess 73 SAGE meeting minutes and background documents for 1) the explicit references to sex and/or gender, and 2) references to issues evidenced in the literature to be gendered, to understand whether the gendered implications of policy were considered. We find that the acknowledgement of the gendered dynamics of particular issues, such as school closures and feminised (or masculinised) employment sectors, were largely absent in SAGE meeting minutes and that explicit references to women were largely of a biological (sex) nature, rather than social (gender). Over time we saw increased references to the gendered impacts of policy in meeting background documents, though these references largely reproduced gendered stereotypes and roles rather than actively engaging with the gender issues. However, not all blame can be put at the feet of SAGE members, who did show awareness of equity issues and were predominantly epidemiologists and behavioural scientists likely untrained in gender analysis. SAGE members are selected based on the government's framing of the type of emergency at hand, and COVID-19 has been treated by the government as a an epidemiological emergency, rather than a social, political and economic one. We argue that reframing emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic in a more holistic way enables us to redefine the scientific advice deemed necessary for SAGE membership, and facilitates the inclusion of gender advisors to mitigate the downstream gendered impacts of nonpharmaceutical interventions associated with the government's COVID-19 response.

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Why we Need a Gender Advisor on SAGE

Wenham¹,

Herten-Crabb

2021

LSE Public Policy Review

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“…This result signals that the short-run supply-side effects of the Spanish flu were significant and that containment measures positively affected economic recovery, at least in the medium term. In contrast, in a developing country context, Bandiera et al (2019) and Rasul et al (2020) found significant negative knock-on effects of adopting strict containment measures. Studying the impact of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, they found significant differences in dropout frequencies of female adolescents across different levels of severity of Ebola-related disruptions.…”

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“…Such budget reallocations can be more damaging in the long run compared to the fiscal policy instruments referred to above. The potential damage is illustrated in Bandiera et al (2019) and Rasul et al (2020), as explained in Section 3.…”

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Fiscal Policy Responses to COVID-19 in Danida Priority Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

Estmann

2021

SSRN Journal

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“…Sections are small administrative units in Sierra Leone with a median area of 40 square kilometers.Figure A.1 maps total reported cases in the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) database by section.4 They also relate toBandiera et al (2019) which finds that an empowerment program for young women in Sierra Leone increases their capacity to cope with disruptions caused by the Ebola crisis.5 CCC staff received three days of classroom and practical training in infection prevention and control, onsite training, and two weeks of 24-hour mentorship after the CCC opened. CCCs were then monitored three times per week.…”

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Ownership and Trust in Banks: Evidence from the First Bank in an American Indian Nation

Christensen

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Haushofer

et al. 2021

AEA Papers and Proceedings

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Postmortems on the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa suggest that effective community engagement helped slow transmission by encouraging people to come forward and be tested. We evaluate the impact of Community Care Centers: a new crisis response model designed to allay fears about western medical care and, thus, encourage early reporting, isolation, and treatment. We employ new panel data on reported Ebola cases and a difference-in-difference design and find that Community Care Centers dramatically increased reporting, potentially reducing the spread of Ebola. Our results highlight how community-based efforts to increase confidence in health systems can be critical for crisis management.

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The Economic Lives of Young Women in the Time of Ebola

Cited by 29 publications

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Why we Need a Gender Advisor on SAGE

Why we Need a Gender Advisor on SAGE

Fiscal Policy Responses to COVID-19 in Danida Priority Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ownership and Trust in Banks: Evidence from the First Bank in an American Indian Nation

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