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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Coronavirus Perceptions and Economic Anxiety
Contributor:
Fetzer, Thiemo;
Hensel, Lukas;
Hermle, Johannes;
Roth, Christopher
Published:
MIT Press - Journals, 2021
Published in:
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 103 (2021) 5, Seite 968-978
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1162/rest_a_00946
ISSN:
0034-6535;
1530-9142
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
Abstract We provide one of the first systematic assessments of the development and determinants of economic anxiety at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Using a global data set on internet searches and two representative surveys from the United States, we document a substantial increase in economic anxiety during and after the arrival of the coronavirus. We also document a large dispersion in beliefs about the pandemic risk factors of the coronavirus and demonstrate that these beliefs causally affect individuals' economic anxieties. Finally, we show that individuals' mental models of infectious disease spread understate nonlinear growth and shape the extent of economic anxiety.