Trust and compliance to public health policies in times of COVID-19

被引:502
作者
Bargain, Olivier [1 ]
Aminjonov, Ulugbek [1 ,2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Bordeaux Univ, Pessac, France
[2] Inst Univ France, Paris, France
[3] IZA, Bonn, Germany
关键词
COVID-19; Political trust; Policy stringency; GROWTH; EBOLA;
D O I
10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104316
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
While degraded trust and cohesion within a country are often shown to have large socio-economic impacts, they can also have dramatic consequences when compliance is required for collective survival. We illustrate this point in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. Policy responses all over the world aim to reduce social interaction and limit contagion. Using data on human mobility and political trust at regional level in Europe, we examine whether the compliance to these containment policies depends on the level of trust in policy makers prior to the crisis. Using a double difference approach around the time of lock down announcements, we find that high-trust regions decrease their mobility related to non-necessary activities significantly more than low-trust regions. We also exploit country and time variation in treatment using the daily strictness of national policies. The efficiency of policy stringency in terms of mobility reduction significantly increases with trust. The trust effect is nonlinear and increases with the degree of stringency. We assess how the impact of trust on mobility potentially translates in terms of mortality growth rate. (c) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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