COVID-19 in Latin America: Covid-19 in Latin America: The role of social protections for households with children

拉丁美洲的 COVID-19：拉丁美洲的 Covid-19：社会保护对有儿童家庭的作用

• 批准号: 468209777
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Merike Blofield
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2020-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/468209777?language=en
• 关键词: COVID; 19; Latin; America; Covid

This research project analyzes the socio-economic fall-out of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the intervening role of social protections, on families with children in eight Latin American countries. Latin America, with high levels of inequality, labor informality, and urbanization, has been particularly hard hit by both pandemic deaths as well as economic effects. The social protection responses of countries in the region, however, have varied dramatically, from a massive emergency assistance plan in Brazil to virtually no additional cash transfer aid in Mexico. Given the particular vulnerability of children (almost half of children in Latin America lived in poverty already before the pandemic) and the fact that their wellbeing has been less visible (with physical school closures and shelter-at-home policies), systematic surveys of households with children are imperative. Yet, to date, we do not have them. We plan to fill this gap. The experience of this past year allows us to systematically study in real time variables related to (i) the socioeconomic shock created by social distancing, (ii) the social protection programs deployed to cope with this shock; and (iii) how these programs affected and mitigated adverse effects on the wellbeing of households with children. We will conduct representative surveys of caregivers of children, in eight Latin American countries, with phone surveys of approximately 1,500 respondents per country. This will provide us with a pooled dataset of about 12,000 cases, allowing us to control for a broad variety of individual, household, community and national-level factors. We will specifically examine:a. The actual access to and sufficiency of cash transfers, in-kind transfers (primarily food) and services (primarily health care) during the pandemic b. The effects of social protection on key indicators of well-being, by comparing children and families with and without social protection and with different sufficiency and quality of social protection c. The role of social protection in households’ willingness/ability to adhere to social distancing measures, issues of attribution and perceptions of role of government. Our surveys will be able to test a variety of hypotheses from the social policy and cash transfer literature, which will not only contribute to our theoretical understanding of social protections, wellbeing and perceptions, but will also be critical for policy design for any future socioeconomic shock preparedness in countries with high levels of labor informality and lower state capacity.Our research project will be conducted by the principal investigator, Merike Blofield, and Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Professor of Comparative Social Policy and Humboldt Chair (2021) at the University of Costa Rica, and leading expert in social protection in Latin America.

该研究项目分析了COVID-19大流行的社会经济下降，以及社会保护的干预作用，对八个拉丁美洲国家的孩子的家庭进行了介入。大流行死亡和经济影响尤其受到尤其严重的打击，具有高水平的不平等，劳动力非正式和城市化的拉丁美洲。然而，该地区国家的社会保护反应已有很大的不同，从巴西的大规模紧急援助计划到几乎没有墨西哥的其他现金转移援助。鉴于儿童的特殊脆弱性（拉丁美洲的几乎一半的儿童已经生活在大流行前的贫困中），而且他们的健康状况不太可见（有实体学校的关闭和庇护所的政策），因此有孩子的家庭的系统调查是必须的。但是，迄今为止，我们没有它们。我们计划填补这一空白。过去一年的经验使我们能够系统地进行实时研究，与（i）社会疏远所造成的社会经济冲击有关，（ii）部署的社会保护计划用于应对这种冲击； （iii）这些计划如何影响和减轻对有孩子家庭福祉的不利影响。我们将在八个拉丁美洲国家对儿童的照顾者进行代表性调查，每个国家的电话调查约1,500名受访者。这将为我们提供约12,000例案例的汇总数据集，使我们能够控制各种各样的个人，家庭，社区和国家级因素。我们将专门检查：大流行期间现金转移，现金转移（主要是食品）和服务（主要是医疗保健）的实际获取和安全性。通过比较有或没有社会保护的儿童和家庭，社会保护的安全和质量不同，社会保护对福祉的关键指标的影响c。社会保护在家庭遵守社会疏远措施的意愿/能力中的作用，属性和对政府作用的看法。我们的调查将能够从社会政策和现金转移文献中检验各种假设，这不仅有助于我们对社会保护，福祉和看法的理论理解，而且对于任何对未来社会经济的冲击准备的政策设计至关重要，对于任何具有较高劳动力的国家的社会经济冲击准备都将是较高的国家研究项目，以及较低的国家研究项目。哥斯达黎加大学比较社会政策和洪堡主席（2021）的教授弗朗索尼，拉丁美洲的社会保护领域领先专家。