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Health Versus Wealth During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Saving Lives or Saving the Economy?
Lesschaeve, Christophe; Glaurdic, Josip; Mochtak, Michal
2021In Public Opinion Quarterly, 85 (3), p. 808-835
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Keywords :
COVID-19; Taboo-trade-offs; Intergenerational fairness
Abstract :
[en] Efforts to combat the COVID-19 crisis were characterized by a difficult trade-off: the stringency of the lockdowns decreased the spread of the virus, but amplified the damage to the economy. In this study, we analyze public attitudes toward this trade-off on the basis of a survey and survey-embedded experiment of more than seven thousand respondents from Southeast Europe, collected in April and May 2020. The results show that public opinion generally favored saving lives even at a steep economic cost. However, the willingness to trade lives for the economy was greater when the heterogeneous health and economic consequences of lockdown policies for the young and the elderly were emphasized. Free market views also make people more acceptant of higher casualties, as do fears that the instituted measures will lead to a permanent expansion of government control over society.
Disciplines :
Political science, public administration & international relations
Author, co-author :
Lesschaeve, Christophe ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Social Sciences (DSOC)
Glaurdic, Josip  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Social Sciences (DSOC)
Mochtak, Michal ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Social Sciences (DSOC)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Health Versus Wealth During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Saving Lives or Saving the Economy?
Publication date :
2021
Journal title :
Public Opinion Quarterly
ISSN :
1537-5331
Publisher :
Oxford University Press, New York, United Kingdom
Volume :
85
Issue :
3
Pages :
808-835
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Focus Area :
Computational Sciences
European Projects :
H2020 - 714589 - ELWar - Electoral Legacies of War: Political Competition in Postwar Southeast Europe
Funders :
CER - Conseil Européen de la Recherche [BE]
CE - Commission Européenne [BE]
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