ArticleInternational journal of health economics and management2023
National or local infodemic? The demand for news in Italy during COVID-19.
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- Modeling infodemics on a global scale: A 30 countries study using epidemiological and social listening data.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- One health, one earth, one life: The overlooked role of veterinarians in the fight against COVID-19 and other public health emergencies in Italy.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- The value of public service broadcasting in Japan during COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of WTP by Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition.Telecommunications policy · 2023Article
- Education and COVID-19 excess mortality.Economics and human biology · 2022Article
- Trends in the interest in COVID-19 news of the local media and their readers: The case of Spain.Journalism (London, England) · 2022Article
- Depressive symptoms in response to COVID-19 and lockdown: a cross-sectional study on the Italian population.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
Information can have an important impact on health behavior and, according to the World Health Organization, an 'infodemic' has accompanied the current pandemic. Observing TV news viewership in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic using actual consumption data, we investigate whether demand for national and local news depends on national or local epidemiological developments, as measured by the number of new positives or the number of current positives on any given day. Exploiting the fact that the impact of the pandemic displays a great deal of variation among the different regions, we find that at the regional level, demand for both national and local news responds to national epidemiological developments rather than to local ones. This has implications regarding the incentives for local politicians to take preventive action.
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