 Communities and Testing for Covid-19Steven Stillman and Mirco Tonin No BEMPS79, BEMPS - Bozen Economics & Management Paper Series from Faculty of Economics and Management at the Free University of Bozen Abstract: The response to the Covid-19 epidemic requires people to undertake actions like maskwearing or vaccination that also confer benefits to the whole community and, therefore, are akin to public good contributions. This is the case also for participation to the mass testing that took place between November 18th and 25th, 2020 in the South Tyrol region of Italy, where 361,781 out of 500,607 (72.3 percent) eligible residents volunteered to take a Covid-19 rapid antigen test. We examine the community characteristics that are associated with higher testing rates. Our findings point to a number of key community determinants of people’s willingness to volunteer. Convenience and social capital were important factors. Beyond that, socioeconomic status and religiosity were also both positively related to greater testing. Keywords: Covid-19; testing; volunteer; social capital; religion (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bzn:wpaper:bemps79 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in BEMPS - Bozen Economics & Management Paper Series from Faculty of Economics and Management at the Free University of Bozen Contact information at EDIRC. |
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