Institutional Trust and Compliance with Measures to Fight COVID-19.

Autor: Caplanova, Anetta, Sivak, Rudolf, Szakadatova, Estera
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Zdroj: International Advances in Economic Research; Feb2021, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p47-60, 14p, 5 Charts
Abstrakt: The paper investigates the causal relationship between the trust in institutions and compliance with measures introduced to slow down the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in Slovakia. In addition, the impact of socio-economic characteristics on compliance with introduced measures was analysed. Data were obtained from a survey carried out by the Slovak Academy of Sciences on a representative sample of the Slovak population of 1,000 respondents. To derive the causal relationship between institutional trust and compliance behaviour, a probit regression model was used. Findings suggest that trust in public institutions helps to increase compliance with social distancing. In addition, some socio-economic characteristics such as employment status, age or whether individuals felt endangered by COVID-19 had a positive and statistically significant effect on compliance with measures used to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Institutional trust did not have a statistically significant effect on compliance with face-covering measures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index
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