Stability of pro-sociality and trust amid the Covid-19: panel data from the Netherlands

Hamza Umer ()
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Hamza Umer: Hitotsubashi University

Empirica, 2023, vol. 50, issue 1, No 10, 255-287

Abstract: Abstract The Covid-19 has impacted most spheres of life and continues to influence the future course of socio-economic decisions. The effects of pandemic and virus contraction on the stability of social preferences are however relatively less know. This study examines the effects of the Covid-19 on pro-sociality and general trust by using the LISS panel data (time frame: 2019–2020) from the Netherlands. The fixed effects panel regressions show that pro-social behavior and general trust do not differ pre-and-after the Covid-19. The article further analyzes the stability of pro-sociality and general trust among people who unfortunately contracted the Covid-19 virus and the uninfected ones (time frame: 2019–2020) using difference-in-differences (DD) method to infer a causal effect of infections on preferences. The DD analysis also leads to insignificant causal effect of virus contractions on pro-sociality and trust. However, the sub-group analysis shows a positive causal impact of infections on trust for respondents above 60 years. Overall, both fixed effects regressions and DD analysis suggest that pro-sociality and to a large extent general trust in the Netherlands are stable despite the negative Covid-19 shock.

Keywords: Covid-19; Pro-sociality; Trust; Netherlands; Panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D9 D90 D91 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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