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COVID-19: effectiveness of socioeconomic factors in containing the spread and mortality

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  • Joshua Ping Ang
  • Fang Dong
  • Jason Patalinghug

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This paper presents a study on 80 countries that evaluates the socioeconomic factors in containing the spread and mortality of COVID-19. Our results show that the long-term social factors such as lower personal freedom, better education in science, and past coronavirus outbreak experience are more effective than the economic factors such as higher healthcare-associated factors per 1000 population and larger GDP. However, using GDP per capita as the instrumental variable, we also find that the richer countries with a high degree of personal freedom have a higher number of infection or death cases per million population because they would be less likely to adhere to and implement the policy of the movement restrictions to restrict their access to goods and services.

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  • Joshua Ping Ang & Fang Dong & Jason Patalinghug, 2021. "COVID-19: effectiveness of socioeconomic factors in containing the spread and mortality," International Review of Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(2), pages 164-187, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:irapec:v:35:y:2021:i:2:p:164-187
    DOI: 10.1080/02692171.2020.1853078
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    1. Hakan Yilmazkuday, 2020. "Stay-at-Home Works to Fight Against COVID-19: International Evidence from Google Mobility Data," Working Papers 2008, Florida International University, Department of Economics.
    2. Feng Wang & Xing Ge & Danwen Huang, 2022. "Government Intervention, Human Mobility, and COVID-19: A Causal Pathway Analysis from 121 Countries," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(6), pages 1-26, March.
    3. Ang, Joshua Ping & Guanlin, Gao & Sparks, Andrew, 2022. "A dichotomy between democracy and personal freedom on the spread of COVID-19," MPRA Paper 114909, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Xiaoling Yuan & Caijuan Li & Kai Zhao & Xiaoyu Xu, 2021. "The Changing Patterns of Consumers’ Behavior in China: A Comparison during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(5), pages 1-21, March.

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