Education and COVID-19 excess mortality

Piera Bello (piera.bello@unibg.it) and Lorenzo Rocco

No 978, GLO Discussion Paper Series from Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Abstract: We study the role of education during the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy. We compare the trends of mortality rates between municipalities with different shares of educated residents between 2012 and 2020, by means of a continuous event study model and controlling for many confounders. We find that education played a protective role, significantly reducing mortality rates, during the first wave of the pandemic (between March and May 2020), but not during the second wave (between October and December 2020). We tentatively interpret this finding as the outcome of the interplay between education and public health communication, whose coherence and consistency varied between the different stages of the epidemic.

Keywords: COVID-19; education; excess mortality; municipality; parallel trend; public health communication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I14 I18 I26 R00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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