Umer Hamza
Institute of Economic Research (IER), Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.
International Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Tokyo, Japan.
J Behav Exp Econ. 2022 Oct;100:101926. doi: 10.1016/j.socec.2022.101926. Epub 2022 Aug 12.
Voluntary compliance of preventive and mitigation measures due to social concerns can play a crucial role in slowing down the spread of the Covid-19. The existing economic models for disease spread however do not direct a lot of focus on the possible role of pro-social behavior and general trust in predicting preventive behaviors amid the Covid-19. Therefore, this study analyzes whether pro-sociality and general trust measured in the short run (2020 and 2019) and in the long run (2015 and 2010) predict attitudes towards the stay home behavior and the intended stay home behavior in case the government mandates it due to the Covid-19 in the Netherlands. The results suggest that these preferences positively influence attitudes towards staying home behavior. However, trust in comparison to pro-sociality is a stable and robust predictor of stay home attitudes both in the short as well as long run. On the other hand, neither trust nor pro-sociality influences the intended stay home behavior in case the government mandates the lockdown, and it is most likely due to the timing of the survey coinciding with a significant drop in the Covid-19 infections and easing out of the lockdown restrictions by the Dutch government.
出于社会关切而自愿遵守预防和缓解措施,在减缓新冠病毒传播方面可发挥关键作用。然而,现有的疾病传播经济模型并未过多关注亲社会行为和普遍信任在预测新冠疫情期间预防行为方面可能发挥的作用。因此,本研究分析了短期内(2020年和2019年)以及长期内(2015年和2010年)衡量的亲社会性和普遍信任,是否能预测荷兰民众对于居家行为的态度,以及在政府因新冠疫情强制要求居家时的预期居家行为。结果表明,这些偏好对居家行为的态度有积极影响。然而,与亲社会性相比,信任在短期和长期都是居家态度的稳定且有力的预测指标。另一方面,在政府强制实施封锁的情况下,信任和亲社会性均未影响预期的居家行为,这很可能是因为调查时间恰逢荷兰新冠感染人数大幅下降以及政府放宽封锁限制。