Arbeitspapier
Education and COVID-19 excess mortality
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.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 978
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Health and Inequality
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Returns to Education
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: General
- Subject
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COVID-19
education
excess mortality
municipality
parallel trend
public health communication
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Bello, Piera
Rocco, Lorenzo
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Global Labor Organization (GLO)
- (where)
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Essen
- (when)
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2021
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Bello, Piera
- Rocco, Lorenzo
- Global Labor Organization (GLO)
Time of origin
- 2021
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