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The Cost of Privacy: Welfare Effects of the Disclosure of COVID-19 Cases / David O. Argente, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Munseob Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Argente, David O.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w27220.
- NBER working paper series no. w27220
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- 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. The change in commuting patterns due to public disclosure lowers the number of cases by 200 thousand and the number of deaths by 7.7 thousand in Seoul over two years. Compared to a city-wide lock-down that results in the same number of cases over two years as the disclosure scenario, the economic cost of such a lockdown is almost four times higher.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2020.
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