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ArticleHealth promotion international2022

Ethnolinguistic diversity and the spread of communicable diseases: a cross-country study on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cong Wang, Jimin Wang

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Article in Health promotion international, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Cong WangDepartment of Economics, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-6852-5490
Jimin WangAccounting and Finance, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.

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Abstract

Motivated by the varying effectiveness of government intervention policies to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, and the potential positive relationship between ethnolinguistic diversity and social distance, this paper aims to provide empirical evidence on the relationship between ethnolinguistic diversity and the spread of COVID-19. In particular, using global data from 113 developed and developing countries during the early stages of the pandemic (from 31 December 2019 to 8 July 2020), we have found a significant negative effect of ethnolinguistic diversity on the spread of the virus. The result is robust to alternative measures of ethnolinguistic diversity and estimator that addresses endogeneity. Moreover, we also show that the impact of ethnolinguistic diversity on the spread of COVID-19 differs in economies characterized by different levels of democracy, policy stringency on addressing COVID-19 and health expenditure.

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Communicable DiseasesCOVID-19GovernmentHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2communicable diseasesCOVID-19 pandemicethnolinguistic diversityhealthcare infrastructurepublic policy

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PMID36000530
PMCPMC9452158

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