The effect of cultural origin on COVID-19 infection rates

Mascia Bedendo, Valentina Febo and Linus Siming

Applied Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 29, issue 12, 1116-1120

Abstract: We examine whether a community’s cultural origin affects COVID-19 infection rates by exploiting cultural differences in the bilingual province of South Tyrol in Northern Italy. We find lower infection rates in municipalities with a relatively higher proportion of German speakers, even after controlling for widely used measures of social and civic capital. Our findings can be explained by a more future-oriented behaviour of German speakers in comparison with Italian speakers.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2021.1910129

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