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COVID-19 Risk Perceptions After the End of the Public Health Emergency

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  • Asako Chiba

    (The University of Tokyo)

  • Kazuya Haganuma

    (Massey University)

  • Taisuke Nakata

    (The University of Tokyo)

  • Thuy Linh Nguyen

    (The University of Tokyo)

  • Reo Takaku

    (Hitotsubashi University)

Abstract

We examine how information provision affects the public’s perceived COVID-19 infection risk after the official end of the pandemic as a public health emergency (PHE). We conducted our survey in Japan in August 2023, a few months after the government reclassified COVID-19 from Category II to Category V and officially ended the PHE. We find that none of the information treatments affected the public’s risk perceptions in a statistically significant way, in stark contrast with a similar information-provision experiment conducted right before the reclassification. Our result suggests that the official end of the PHE may influence how the public responds to news about infection.

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  • Asako Chiba & Kazuya Haganuma & Taisuke Nakata & Thuy Linh Nguyen & Reo Takaku, 2026. "COVID-19 Risk Perceptions After the End of the Public Health Emergency," CARF F-Series CARF-F-621, Center for Advanced Research in Finance, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo.
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