| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w27245 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 27245 |
| Fatalism, Beliefs, and Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic | |
| Jesper Akesson; Sam Ashworth-Hayes; Robert Hahn; Robert D. Metcalfe; Itzhak Rasooly | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-05-25 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Little is known about how people’s beliefs concerning the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) influence their behavior. To shed light on this, we conduct an online experiment (n = 3,610) with US and UK residents. Participants are randomly allocated to a control group or to one of two treatment groups. The treatment groups are shown upperor lower-bound expert estimates of the infectiousness of the virus. We present three main empirical findings. First, individuals dramatically overestimate the dangerousness and infectiousness of COVID-19 relative to expert opinion. Second, providing people with expert information partially corrects their beliefs about the virus. Third, the more infectious people believe that COVID-19 is, the less willing they are to take protective measures, a finding we dub the “fatalism effect”. We develop a formal model that can explain the fatalism effect and discuss its implications for optimal policy during the pandemic. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; COVID-19 |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27245 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584917 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jesper Akesson,Sam Ashworth-Hayes,Robert Hahn,et al. Fatalism, Beliefs, and Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 2020. |
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| w27245.pdf（1142KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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