Abstract:Can civic‐minded individuals fight against a pandemic? In this paper, we show that civic capital plays an important role when assessing the level of compliance with COVID‐19 vaccination recommendations. Analyzing data on a large sample of municipalities from the Italian region of Lombardy, we show that the share of vaccinated individuals is significantly higher in municipalities with higher pre‐determined levels of civic capital. These findings are robust to the possibility of spatial spillovers across neighbo… Show more
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