COVID-19: Effectiveness of Socioeconomic Factors in Containing the Spread and Mortality

Ang, Joshua Ping; Dong, Fang; Patalinghug, Jason C.

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“…On one hand, even though interventions such as highly restrictive social distancing [ 15 ], closing public spaces [ 16 ] or even a complete lockdown have played significant roles in controlling the spread of COVID-19 [ 17 ], there have been negative economic and social implications [ 18 ]. These unusual countermeasures, to a certain degree, have affected people’s mental and physical well-being in many ways [ 19 ], causing physical [ 20 ] and mental health damages [ 21 ] or real income decline and unemployment growth [ 22 , 23 ]. On the other hand, human activities were sharply decreased due to the partial-to-total lockdown, thus the normal negative effects of anthropogenic activities appear to be had been mitigated.…”

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The Changing Patterns of Consumers’ Behavior in China: A Comparison during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic

Yuan

Zhao

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IJERPH

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This paper has an opportunity to collect questionnaire-based data regarding respondents’ life choices in China at the peak of COVID-19 outbreak (i.e., around 9–11 March 2020) and in a relatively stable period where the national pandemic was over and the lockdown policy was halted (i.e., around 25–30 March 2020). Comparing respondents’ answers about their most fundamental aspects of life during and after the pandemic, including income level, expenditure structure and level, purchase method, study method, food price and quality, and dining habit, both the descriptive and econometric models reveal that Chinese consumers’ life patterns were not significantly changed. These findings may imply a “new normal” where consumers stick to their new living habits that were forged during the pandemic. Therefore, policy makers have to envisage such an implicative socio-economic change (cost) brought by the implementation of a lock down policy in a long run, in addition to direct and explicit economic losses. However, improving food quality and controlling food price appear to be the strong and stable safety signals to reassure consumers in this complicated environment.

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The Changing Patterns of Consumers’ Behavior in China: A Comparison during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic

Yuan

Zhao

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“…While Ang et al. ( 2020 ) found that education in mathematics and science impacts the number of COVID-19 cases, they did not assess the relative role of mathematics and science on one another.…”

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Education in Mathematics and the Spread of COVID-19

Ang

Murray

2021

Eastern Econ J

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We investigate the effect of standardized mathematics scores for young adults on the number of COVID-19 cases in the USA. We find that a one-grade-level increase in test scores led to a decrease in COVID-19 cases 30, 60, and 90 days after the first case in each county. Our findings suggest that if states and localities implement policies that increase the level of education and comprehension of mathematics at the K-12 level, that people may be better prepared to find and interpret information in a future public health crisis.

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“…Our results show that the infection cases are affected positively by income inequality corresponding to Papageorge et al. (2021) and positively by urbanization, as shown in Acuto (2020), Ang et al. (2021), Carozzi et al.…”

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“…, 2020). Other findings show that higher infection cases are affected by higher urbanization rate (Acuto, 2020; Ang et al. , 2021; Carozzi et al.…”

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A dichotomy between democracy and personal freedom on the spread of COVID-19

Ang

Gao

Sparks

2022

IJSE

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PurposeThe authors analyze the effects of political freedom and personal freedom on the spread of COVID-19 in a cross-country study. The authors also investigate how income inequality, urbanization and previous experience with a similar respiratory epidemic/pandemic, such as SARS and MERS, affect the spread of COVID-19.Design/methodology/approachThe authors employ data from 102 countries to examine the relationship of countries' economic and sociopolitical factors, such as political freedom and personal freedom and their COVID-19 infection cases per million population at 120 days, 150 days and 180 days after the reported 10th infection case. The authors also include the log term of real GDP per capita to control for counties' economic development and regional dummies to control for regional-specific effects.FindingsResults of this study show that personal freedom, rather than democracy, has a significant positive effect on countries' COVID-19 infection cases. On the contrary, democracy has a negative impact on the infection rate. The authors also find that socioeconomic factors such as higher income inequality and urbanization rate adversely affect the COVID-19 infection cases. A larger older population is associated with fewer infection cases, holding everything else equal. Previous experiences with the coronavirus crisis affect countries only at the 120 days mark. Real GDP per capita has no significant effect.Originality/valueThe main contribution of this paper is to jointly explore personal freedom, which implies a social framework with more emphasis on self-value and self-realization and political freedom, that is, democracy. The authors show that it is personal freedom, rather than democracy, that contributes to higher COVID-19 infection cases. Democracy, on the other hand, reduces the number of infection cases.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-12-2021-0769

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COVID-19: Effectiveness of Socioeconomic Factors in Containing the Spread and Mortality

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The Changing Patterns of Consumers’ Behavior in China: A Comparison during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Changing Patterns of Consumers’ Behavior in China: A Comparison during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic

Education in Mathematics and the Spread of COVID-19

A dichotomy between democracy and personal freedom on the spread of COVID-19

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