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

By Olivier Bargain, U. Aminjonov. Journal of Public Economics, 2020

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Highlights • Degraded trust presents a risk for collective survival in the face of a pandemic.• Human mobility decreases in Europe during generalized lockdowns in March 2020.• This mobility reduction is larger in European regions with higher levels of political trust.• The effect of policy stringency is also more pronounced in high-trust regions.• The trust effect on mobility eventually translates in differential mortality growth rates.

Subfields: Health, Modeling and Simulation, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• A literature review of the economics of COVID‐19 (2020, neutral): “Bargain and Aminjonov (2020) demonstrate that residents in European regions with high levels of trust decrease their mobility related to non-necessary activities compared to regions with lower levels of trust.”