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Climate risk, culture and the Covid-19 mortality: A cross-country analysis
Why have some countries done significantly better than others in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic? Had some countries been better prepared than others? This paper attempts to shed light on these questions by examining the role of climate risk and culture in explaining the cross-country variation in th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7817474/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33495666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105412 |
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author | Ozkan, Aydin Ozkan, Gulcin Yalaman, Abdullah Yildiz, Yilmaz |
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description | Why have some countries done significantly better than others in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic? Had some countries been better prepared than others? This paper attempts to shed light on these questions by examining the role of climate risk and culture in explaining the cross-country variation in the Covid-19 mortality, while controlling for other potential drivers. In our analysis, we consider climate risk, readiness to climate change and individualism as main indicators reflecting the climate and culture status of individual countries. Using data from 110 countries, we find that the greater the climate risk; the lower the readiness to climate change and the more individualistic the society, the higher the pandemic mortality rate. We also present a series of sensitivity checks and show that our findings are robust to different specifications, alternative definitions of the mortality rate; and different estimation methods. One policy implication arising from our results is that countries that were better prepared for the climate emergency were also better placed to fight the pandemic. Overall, countries in which individuals look after each other and the environment, creating sustainable societies, are better able to cope with climate and public health emergencies. |
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spelling | pubmed-78174742021-01-21 Climate risk, culture and the Covid-19 mortality: A cross-country analysis Ozkan, Aydin Ozkan, Gulcin Yalaman, Abdullah Yildiz, Yilmaz World Dev Regular Research Article Why have some countries done significantly better than others in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic? Had some countries been better prepared than others? This paper attempts to shed light on these questions by examining the role of climate risk and culture in explaining the cross-country variation in the Covid-19 mortality, while controlling for other potential drivers. In our analysis, we consider climate risk, readiness to climate change and individualism as main indicators reflecting the climate and culture status of individual countries. Using data from 110 countries, we find that the greater the climate risk; the lower the readiness to climate change and the more individualistic the society, the higher the pandemic mortality rate. We also present a series of sensitivity checks and show that our findings are robust to different specifications, alternative definitions of the mortality rate; and different estimation methods. One policy implication arising from our results is that countries that were better prepared for the climate emergency were also better placed to fight the pandemic. Overall, countries in which individuals look after each other and the environment, creating sustainable societies, are better able to cope with climate and public health emergencies. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-05 2021-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7817474/ /pubmed/33495666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105412 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Regular Research Article Ozkan, Aydin Ozkan, Gulcin Yalaman, Abdullah Yildiz, Yilmaz Climate risk, culture and the Covid-19 mortality: A cross-country analysis |
title | Climate risk, culture and the Covid-19 mortality: A cross-country analysis |
title_full | Climate risk, culture and the Covid-19 mortality: A cross-country analysis |
title_fullStr | Climate risk, culture and the Covid-19 mortality: A cross-country analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Climate risk, culture and the Covid-19 mortality: A cross-country analysis |
title_short | Climate risk, culture and the Covid-19 mortality: A cross-country analysis |
title_sort | climate risk, culture and the covid-19 mortality: a cross-country analysis |
topic | Regular Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7817474/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33495666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105412 |
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