| Titre : | The Cost of Privacy: Welfare Effect of the Disclosure of COVID-19 Cases. |
| Titre original: | Le coût de la vie privée : Effet de la divulgation des cas COVID-19 sur le bien-être. |
| Titre de série : | NBER Working Paper, 27220 |
| Auteurs : | D.O. ARGENTE ; H. CHANG-TAI ; M. LEE ; National Bureau of Economic Research. (N.B.E.R.). Cambridge CA. USA |
| Type de document : | Document de travail |
| Editeur : | Cambridge : N.B.E.R., 2020 |
| Format : | 33p., fig., tab. |
| Note générale : | Référence : réf. bib. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
[BDSP5] CANDES > Coronavirus [BDSP5] Géographie > Géographie humaine > Milieu urbain > Déplacement urbain [BDSP5] Géographie politique > Monde > Asie > Asie du Nord > Corée > Corée du Sud [BDSP5] Histoire de vie > Histoire familiale > Vie privée [BDSP5] Organisme vivant > Microorganisme > Virus [BDSP5] Pathologie > Infection |
| Résumé : | South Korea publicly disclosed detailed location information of individuals that tested positive for COVID-19. We quantify the effect of public disclosure on the transmission of the virus and economic losses in Seoul. We use detailed foot-traffic data from South Korea's largest mobile phone company to document the change in the flows of people across neighborhoods in Seoul in response to information on the locations of positive cases. We analyze the effect of the change in commuting flows in a SIR meta-population model where the virus spreads due to these flows. We endogenize these flows in a model of urban neighborhoods where individuals commute across neighborhoods to access jobs and leisure opportunities. Relative to a scenario where no information is disclosed, the change in commuting patterns due to public disclosure lowers the number of cases by 400 thousand and the number of deaths by 13 thousand in Seoul over two years. Compared to a city-wide lock-down that results in the same number of cases over two years, the economic cost is 50% lower with full disclosure. |
| En ligne : | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27220 |