Fig. 6: A schematic of the methodology.
From: The unequal effects of the health–economy trade-off during the COVID-19 pandemic
a, Inputs and outputs of the epidemic and economic modules. For each group of input data, we list the data source. The feedback from the epidemic to the economic module is through fear of infection, while a reverse feedback occurs through hiring and firing. b, Socioeconomic characteristics of six example synthetic individuals, including age, income, industry, occupation, possibility to WFH and employment status. c, A schematic of the epidemic module. The different compartments and transition times from one compartment to another are shown. See the text for the meaning of the symbols. d, A causal diagram of the economic module. Blue rectangles show processes exogenous to the economic module, black rectangles represent industry-level endogenous variables and red diamonds are individual-level endogenous variables (in this case, the employment status of each individual). A link between variables indicates that the linking variable influences the linked variable. We only show the key variables. On the left, we show lagged values of these variables at time t − 1, while on the right we show the relations between these variables at time t.
