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How Covid-19 changed economic and health-related worries in Italy

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  • Gian Paolo Stella

    (University of Naples “Parthenope”)

  • Umberto Filotto

    (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”)

  • Enrico Maria Cervellati

    (University of Rome Link Campus)

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a huge challenge for governments all over the world, as well as for the World Health Organization (WHO) and the pharmaceutical companies in charge of creating the vaccines against the coronavirus. The success of all the efforts and the measures put in place to contain the spread of the contagion and to immunize people, however, also depends on people social compliance. In this study, we thus investigate how demographic and socio-economic variables affected individuals’ economic and health-related worries due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Using questions created by the WHO, we surveyed about 3000 Italians between May and June 2020. Our results show that individuals’ socio-demographic and socio-economic characteristics are engaged with distinct types of worries due to Covid-19, such as health-related worries, economic-related worries and worries connected to restrictions on movements. Our findings have implications for decision makers and policy makers in showing how important is to consider demographic and socio-economic differences between individuals, to better understand how people are differently affected by different worries and which actions and policies may be more effective in protecting and supporting people especially the most vulnerable ones.

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  • Gian Paolo Stella & Umberto Filotto & Enrico Maria Cervellati, 2022. "How Covid-19 changed economic and health-related worries in Italy," SN Business & Economics, Springer, vol. 2(12), pages 1-18, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:snbeco:v:2:y:2022:i:12:d:10.1007_s43546-022-00385-1
    DOI: 10.1007/s43546-022-00385-1
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    1. Müller, Stephan & Rau, Holger A., 2021. "Economic preferences and compliance in the social stress test of the COVID-19 crisis," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 194(C).
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