Aleksanyan, Y. & Weinman, J.P. (2022). Women, men and COVID-19. Social Science and Medicine.
Abstract
This study uses COVID-19 sex-disaggregated data from 133 countries. Using bootstrapping and imputation methods and heteroscedastic linear regression model, it investigates the effect of biological factors and gender norms on reported differences in male and female COVID-19 case and death rates.