论文标题
爱你的邻居？人们认为社区的宽容和私人遵守印度的Covid-19规范
Love Thy Neighbor? Perceived Community Abidance and Private Compliance to COVID-19 Norms in India
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论文摘要
遵守社会疏远，洗手和戴口罩等措施的依从性已成为打击COVID-19大流行的健康风险的主要策略。这些行为通常被认为是亲社会的，其中必须引起私人成本以使他人受益或保护他人。通过在线调查中，使用印度的自我报告的数据（n = 934），我们评估社区合规性的变化是否可以预测个人合规行为的变化，从而控制潜在的混杂因素。我们观察到两者之间具有统计学意义和积极的关系，即使考虑到省略的可变偏见，也可以使我们能够从合理的因果镜头查看结果。此外，我们发现随后的封锁（例如在印度施加的锁定）对个人合规性产生了不利影响，尽管较高的社区合规性的收益似乎抵消了这一损失。我们还发现，通过社区的敏感性对于先前存在的合并症的人特别有效。我们的发现强调了涉及当地参与者和社区机构的多层次行为干预措施的需求，以在大流行期间维持私人合规性。
Compliance with measures like social distancing, hand-washing and wearing masks have emerged as the dominant strategy to combat health risk from the COVID-19 pandemic. These behaviors are often argued to be pro-social, where one must incur private cost to benefit or protect others. Using self-reported data across India (n=934) through online survey, we assess if changes in perceived community compliance can predict changes in individual compliance behavior, controlling for the potential confounders. We observe statistically significant and positive relationship between the two, even after accounting for omitted variable bias, plausibly allowing us to view the results from a plausible causal lens. Further, we find subsequent lockdowns such as the ones imposed in India, have a detrimental effect on individual compliance though the gains from higher perceived community compliance seems to offset this loss. We also find that sensitization through community can be particularly effective for people with pre-existing co-morbidities. Our findings underscore the need for multi-level behavioral interventions involving local actors and community institutions to sustain private compliance during the pandemic.
