The spread of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, poses major challenges for individuals and societies at large. The question now is how individuals and society are dealing with these challenges, and what health, psychological, social, and economic effects they will have to bear. Meaningful answers can only be provided using a generalizable database that contains contextual information such as family ...
In:
Survey Research Methods
14 (2020), 2, S. 195-203
| Simon Kühne, Martin Kroh, Stefan Liebig, Sabine Zinn
We study the willingness to get vaccinated and the acceptance of a policy of mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 in June and July 2020 in Germany based on a representative real time survey, a random sub-sample (SOEP-CoV) of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). About 70 percent of adults in Germany would voluntarily get vaccinated against the corona virus if a vaccine without side effects was ...
Rochester :
SSRN,
2020,
42 S.
| Daniel Graeber, Christoph Schmidt-Petri, Carsten Schröder
The present paper studies the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on risk preferences. Using real-time panel data from the year before the pandemic and from the first few months of the pandemic in Germany (April to July 2020), we provide robust evidence that exposure to COVID-19 reduces individual risk tolerance. We establish a causal link between the pandemic and risk tolerance by exploiting longitudinal ...
Rochester :
SSRN,
2020,
43 S.
| Daniel Graeber, Ulrich Schmidt, Carsten Schröder, Johannes Seebauer