Coronavirus Perceptions and Economic Anxiety
Coronavirus Perceptions and Economic Anxiety
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DOI：
10.1162/rest_a_00946
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发表时间：
2021-12-02
影响因子：
8
通讯作者：
Roth, Christopher
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作者：
Fetzer, Thiemo;Hensel, Lukas;Roth, Christopher
我们提供了对冠状病毒大流行开始时经济焦虑的发展和决定因素的首批系统评估之一。我们使用全球互联网搜索数据集和来自美国的两项代表性调查，记录了冠状病毒到来期间和之后经济焦虑的大幅增加。我们还记录了关于冠状病毒大流行风险因素的信念的巨大差异，并证明这些信念会因果地影响个人的经济焦虑。最后，我们表明，个人的传染病传播的心理模型低估了非线性增长和形状的经济焦虑的程度。
We provide one of the first systematic assessments of the development and determinants of economic anxiety at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Using a global data set on internet searches and two representative surveys from the United States, we document a substantial increase in economic anxiety during and after the arrival of the coronavirus. We also document a large dispersion in beliefs about the pandemic risk factors of the coronavirus and demonstrate that these beliefs causally affect individuals' economic anxieties. Finally, we show that individuals' mental models of infectious disease spread understate nonlinear growth and shape the extent of economic anxiety.