TY - JOUR
T1 - Experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and support for safety-net expansion
AU - Salvadori, Luca
AU - Piolatto, Amedeo
AU - Rees-Jones, Alex
AU - D’Attoma, John
N1 - A prior draft of this paper circulated under the title “COVID-19 Changed Tastes for Safety-Net Programs.”D’Attoma and Salvadori gratefully acknowledge support from the Economic and Social Research Council (ES/S00713X/1). Salvadori grate- fully acknowledges support from the Serra Húnter Programme and the MCIU/AEI/FEDER-UE (RTI2018-095983-B-I00). Piolatto gratefully acknowledges support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (RYC-2016-19371 and PGC2018- 094348) and from the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), through the Severo Ochoa Programme for Centres of Excellence in R&D (Barcelona School of Economics CEX2019-0 0 0915-S). The project described in this paper relies on data from surveys administered by the Understanding America Study, which is maintained by the Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) at the University of Southern California. The collection of the UAS COVID-19 tracking data is supported in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation andbygrantU01AG054580 fromtheNationalInstituteon Aging.
PY - 2022/8
Y1 - 2022/8
N2 - Did individuals’ experiences with the harms of the COVID-19 pandemic influence their attitudes towards safety-net programs? To assess this question, we combine rich information about county-level impacts and individual-level perceptions of the early pandemic, repeated measurements of attitudes towards safety-net expansion, and pre-pandemic measurements of related political attitudes. Individuals facing higher county-level impact or greater perceived risks are more likely to support long-term expansions to unemployment insurance and government-provided healthcare when surveyed in June 2020. These differences persist across time, with experiences in the early months of the pandemic remaining strongly predictive of attitudes towards safety-net expansion in early 2021.
AB - Did individuals’ experiences with the harms of the COVID-19 pandemic influence their attitudes towards safety-net programs? To assess this question, we combine rich information about county-level impacts and individual-level perceptions of the early pandemic, repeated measurements of attitudes towards safety-net expansion, and pre-pandemic measurements of related political attitudes. Individuals facing higher county-level impact or greater perceived risks are more likely to support long-term expansions to unemployment insurance and government-provided healthcare when surveyed in June 2020. These differences persist across time, with experiences in the early months of the pandemic remaining strongly predictive of attitudes towards safety-net expansion in early 2021.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Healthcare
KW - Safety net
KW - Unemployment insurance
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jebo.2022.07.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jebo.2022.07.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 35822063
SN - 0167-2681
VL - 200
SP - 1090
EP - 1104
JO - Journal of economic behavior and organization
JF - Journal of economic behavior and organization
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