Pandemic knowledge and regulation effectiveness: Evidence from COVID-19

The spread of COVID-19 led countries around the world to adopt lockdown measures of varying stringency, with the purpose of restricting the movement of people. However, the effectiveness of these measures on mobility has been markedly different. Employing a difference-in-differences design, we analy...

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Autores principales: Loiacono, Luisa, Puglisi, Riccardo, Rizzo, Leonzio, Secomandi, Riccardo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Comparative Economic Studies. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8863948/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35221397
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2022.02.004
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author Loiacono, Luisa
Puglisi, Riccardo
Rizzo, Leonzio
Secomandi, Riccardo
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description The spread of COVID-19 led countries around the world to adopt lockdown measures of varying stringency, with the purpose of restricting the movement of people. However, the effectiveness of these measures on mobility has been markedly different. Employing a difference-in-differences design, we analyse the effectiveness of movement restrictions across different countries. We disentangle the role of regulation (stringency measures) from the role of people's knowledge about the spread of COVID-19. We proxy COVID-19 knowledge by using Google Trends data on the term “Covid”. We find that lockdown measures have a higher impact on mobility the more people learn about COVID-19. This finding is driven by countries with low levels of trust in institutions and low levels of education.
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spelling pubmed-88639482022-02-23 Pandemic knowledge and regulation effectiveness: Evidence from COVID-19 Loiacono, Luisa Puglisi, Riccardo Rizzo, Leonzio Secomandi, Riccardo J Comp Econ Article The spread of COVID-19 led countries around the world to adopt lockdown measures of varying stringency, with the purpose of restricting the movement of people. However, the effectiveness of these measures on mobility has been markedly different. Employing a difference-in-differences design, we analyse the effectiveness of movement restrictions across different countries. We disentangle the role of regulation (stringency measures) from the role of people's knowledge about the spread of COVID-19. We proxy COVID-19 knowledge by using Google Trends data on the term “Covid”. We find that lockdown measures have a higher impact on mobility the more people learn about COVID-19. This finding is driven by countries with low levels of trust in institutions and low levels of education. Association for Comparative Economic Studies. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-09 2022-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8863948/ /pubmed/35221397 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2022.02.004 Text en © 2022 Association for Comparative Economic Studies. Published by Elsevier Inc. 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.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35221397
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