Social contacts in the post-lockdown period

Ambra Poggi

No 455, Working Papers from University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Economics

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought tighter restrictions on the daily lives of millions of people. In this paper, we investigate the effects of the pandemic on social contacts during the post-lockdown period in the UK. We find a negative correlation between social contacts and individual concerns for health risks and a new lockdown. We also find a substantial “inefficiency” in socialization in the post-lockdown period. These results support a scenario in which social contacts stay low for a long while, perhaps impacting negatively on wellbeing in the long run.

Keywords: social contacts; COVID-19; count model; inefficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 D91 H12 I18 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9
Date: 2020-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hap, nep-hea and nep-soc
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