Publication: Risky restrictions? Mobility restriction effects on risk awareness and anxiety
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Date
2022-08-21
Authors
Costa-Font, Joan ; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina
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Publisher
Elsevier
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.08.009
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Abstract
Although mobility restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic were intended to change behaviours by influ
encing risk awareness, they might have prompted a rise in risk anxiety (‘worry for one’s health’) both among
individuals exposed to such restrictions and those living in border countries. This paper studies this question by
examining survey data from 22 European countries in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (March 20th and
April 6th 2020). Drawing on an event study analysis we show that COVID-19 mobility restrictions raised in
dividuals COVID-19 risk awareness both in the exposed and border countries for almost a week after the
announcement. The spillover effect on border countries accounts for about 67% of the effect in the exposed
country. However, mobility restrictions gave rise to an increase in risk anxiety in low-risk countries (which is
between 4 and 7 times higher than moderate and high-risk countries). These effects are heterogeneous across
age, education and socioeconomic status.
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Citation
Health Policy vol.126, nº 11 1090-1102
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