Impacts of the COVID lockdown on household incomes: evidence from Punjab, India

Abstract In response to the beginnings of COVID-19 pandemic, India’s government instituted a severe nationwide lockdown in late March 2020. this paper, we analyze household survey data on income from an Indian state, Punjab. We impacts pandemic and total income, as well its components, including wages, business transfers. This paper innovates area by using Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood estimation deal with skewed distributions various quantile regressions examine differential across distribution. differences between rural urban households, female-headed laborer time pattern impacts. find that households experienced more persistent declines than their wages suffered relatively more. Households daily laborers were most badly affected, was especially true at bottom