Department of Economics, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, 61790-4200, USA.
DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland; Hanken School of Economics, Arkadiankatu 22, 00100, Helsinki, Finland.
Soc Sci Med. 2021 Jan;269:113569. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113569. Epub 2020 Dec 3.
We investigate the links between corruption and compliance with social distancing during COVID-19 pandemic in America. Both theory and empirical evidence point to a corrosive effect of corruption on trust/social capital which in turn determine people's behavior towards compliance with public health policies. Using data from 50 states we find that people who live in more corrupt states are less likely to comply with so called shelter in place/stay at home orders. Our results are robust to different measures of corruption.
我们研究了美国在 COVID-19 大流行期间腐败与遵守社交距离之间的联系。理论和经验证据都表明，腐败对信任/社会资本具有腐蚀性影响，而信任/社会资本又决定了人们对遵守公共卫生政策的行为。利用来自 50 个州的数据，我们发现生活在腐败程度较高的州的人不太可能遵守所谓的就地避难/居家令。我们的结果对于不同的腐败衡量标准都是稳健的。
