ArticleHealth policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2022
The political cost of sanctions: Evidence from COVID-19.
Article in Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Disproportionate, differential and targeted treatment: people who use drugs' experiences of policing during the COVID-19 pandemic.Health & justice · 2025Article
- Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany.Journal of economic inequality · 2023Article
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Abstract
We use survey data to study how trust in government and consensus for the pandemic policy response vary with the propensity for altruistic punishment in Italy, the early epicenter of the pandemic. Approval for the management of the crisis decreases with the size of the penalties that individuals would like to see enforced for lockdown violations. People supporting stronger punishment are more likely to consider the government's reaction to the pandemic as insufficient. However, after the establishment of tougher sanctions for risky behaviors, we observe a sudden flip in support for the government. Higher amounts of the desired fines become associated with a higher probability of considering the COVID policy response as too extreme, lower trust in government, and lower confidence in the truthfulness of the officially provided information. These results suggest that lockdowns entail a political cost that helps explain why democracies may adopt epidemiologically suboptimal policies.
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