Coping Strategies and Inequalities during the COVID-19 Pandemic Period: Evidence from Kenya

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dc.authoridGiovanis, Eleftherios/0000-0002-7492-7461
dc.contributor.authorGiovanis, Eleftherios
dc.contributor.authorOzdamar, Oznur
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-20T09:50:55Z
dc.date.available2025-03-20T09:50:55Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.departmentİzmir Bakırçay Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractGovernments worldwide have implemented stringent lockdown measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, which had an adverse impact on employment, affecting people's public life, health and well-being. People have witnessed job losses, cuts in wages and a decline in their living standards. This study aims to estimate the inequalities and well-being costs, demonstrating the living standards necessary to make up for people's wage reduction or job losses. In particular, we aim to explore the coping strategies used to enhance their well-being compared to those of households without a coping strategy. We use food insecurity as a measure of well-being outcome. The empirical analysis relies on detailed household surveys from the World Bank Microdata Library. We use seven waves of the Panel COVID-19 Rapid Response Phone Survey with Households in 2020-2022 in Kenya. Also, the results highlight the potential inequalities of the COVID-19 pandemic across gender and types of workers, such as those employed in the informal sector and on temporary contracts. The findings show that specific coping strategies, such as delayed payment obligations, credit purchases and reduced non-food consumption, are associated with larger inequalities. Regarding the gender of the head of the household, the results suggest that the disparities between female-headed households that had to cope with income and employment loss and female-headed households that did not require to follow any strategy are significantly higher compared to their male counterparts. We derive similar concluding remarks when we consider households with social security coverage and the type of employment contract.
dc.description.sponsorshipAfrican Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors would like to thank the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) for the financial support received. We would also like to thank the participants of the GPIR workshops held in January and April 2023 and Professors Erik Thorbecke and Miguel Nino-Zarazua for their valuable feedback and comments that have improved the quality of this paper.
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/jae/ejae019
dc.identifier.endpage72
dc.identifier.issn0963-8024
dc.identifier.issn1464-3723
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85211967636
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage54
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejae019
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14034/2370
dc.identifier.volume33
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001375445100004
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherOxford Univ Press
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of African Economies
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_WOS_20250319
dc.subjectcoping strategies
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectfood insecurity
dc.subjectinequalities
dc.subjectKenya
dc.subjectrisks
dc.titleCoping Strategies and Inequalities during the COVID-19 Pandemic Period: Evidence from Kenya
dc.typeArticle

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