Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics, CESIFo & IZA, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom.
University of Murcia, Spain.
Health Policy. 2022 Nov;126(11):1090-1102. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.08.009. Epub 2022 Aug 21.
Although mobility restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic were intended to change behaviours by influencing 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 individuals 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.
尽管 COVID-19 大流行期间的行动限制旨在通过影响风险意识来改变行为，但这些限制可能会在接触到这些限制的个人和居住在边境国家的个人中引发风险焦虑（“对健康的担忧”）上升。本文通过研究 COVID-19 大流行第一波期间（2020 年 3 月 20 日和 4 月 6 日）来自 22 个欧洲国家的调查数据来研究这个问题。利用事件研究分析，我们发现 COVID-19 行动限制在宣布后的近一周内，提高了暴露国家和边境国家个人对 COVID-19 风险的认识。对边境国家的溢出效应约占暴露国家效应的 67%。然而，行动限制在低风险国家引发了风险焦虑的增加（比中高风险国家高 4 到 7 倍）。这些影响在年龄、教育和社会经济地位方面存在异质性。
