Zayed University, UAE; CAMA, Australia; Atilim University, Turkey.
University of Granada, Spain.
Econ Hum Biol. 2022 Aug;46:101119. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101119. Epub 2022 Mar 10.
We examine the role of residential environments (urban/rural) in understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions in nationwide movement on several socio-economic attitudes. We conducted large-scale surveys in four European countries (France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom) before and after nationwide lockdowns were implemented. We investigate how the pandemic affected: (i) economic (economic insecurity), (ii) political (trust in domestic and international institutions), and (iii) social attitudes (loneliness), by controlling for the degree of urbanization, obtained from the geocodes of the survey respondents. Our results show that taking the degree of urbanization into account is not only relevant but is also essential. Compared to urban areas, in rural areas lockdowns led to a greater increase of economic insecurity and to a greater decrease in trust in domestic institutions. We also show that these results are particularly valid for women and households with children.
我们研究了居住环境（城市/农村）在理解 COVID-19 大流行及其对全国范围人员流动限制的影响方面的作用，对四个欧洲国家（法国、德国、西班牙和英国）在实施全国范围封锁前后进行了大规模调查。我们通过调查受访者的地理位置代码，调查了大流行如何影响：（i）经济（经济不安全感），（ii）政治（对国内和国际机构的信任）和（iii）社会态度（孤独感）。我们的结果表明，考虑到城市化程度不仅是相关的，而且也是必不可少的。与城市地区相比，在农村地区，封锁导致经济不安全感更大的增加，对国内机构的信任度更大的降低。我们还表明，这些结果对女性和有子女的家庭尤其有效。
