COVID-19 Risk Perceptions After the End of the Public Health Emergency

Asako Chiba, Kazuya Haganuma, Taisuke Nakata, Thuy Linh Nguyen and Reo Takaku
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Asako Chiba: The University of Tokyo
Kazuya Haganuma: Massey University
Taisuke Nakata: The University of Tokyo
Thuy Linh Nguyen: The University of Tokyo
Reo Takaku: Hitotsubashi University

No CARF-F-621, CARF F-Series from Center for Advanced Research in Finance, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo

Abstract: We examine how information provision affects the public’s perceived COVID-19 infection risk after the official end of the pandemic as a public health emergency (PHE). We conducted our survey in Japan in August 2023, a few months after the government reclassified COVID-19 from Category II to Category V and officially ended the PHE. We find that none of the information treatments affected the public’s risk perceptions in a statistically significant way, in stark contrast with a similar information-provision experiment conducted right before the reclassification. Our result suggests that the official end of the PHE may influence how the public responds to news about infection.

Pages: 28
Date: 2026-03
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