Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/232304 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 811
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
The mounting evidence on the demographics of COVID-19 fatalities points to an overrepresentation of minorities and an underrepresentation of women. Us- ing individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County Medical Examiner, we jointly investigate the racial and gendered impact of COVID-19, its timing, and its determinants. Through an event study approach we establish that Blacks individuals are affected earlier and more harshly and that the effect is driven by Black women. Rather than comorbidity or aging, the Black female bias is associated with poverty and channeled by occupational seg- regation in the health care and transportation sectors and by commuting on public transport. Living arrangements and lack of health insurance are instead found un- in uential. The Black female bias is spatially concentrated in neighborhoods that were subject to historical redlining.
Subjects: 
COVID-19
deaths
race
gender
occupations
transport
redlining
Cook County
Chicago
JEL: 
I14
J15
J16
J21
R38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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