Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/219131 
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Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 8313
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Using the Worldwide COVID-19 Attitudes and Beliefs dataset covering 108,918 respondents from 178 countries, the paper examines the determinants of public trust in governments during the COVID-19. It is found that older and healthy people trust more to their governments. Education is negatively related to trust in governments. The results are robust to consider different measures of trust in government as well as including various controls, such as precautionary behaviors, first-order beliefs, second-order beliefs, and the COVID-19 prevalence in the country. The findings are also valid for countries at different stages of economic development as well to varying levels of globalization, institutional quality, and freedom of the press.
Subjects: 
the COVID-19 pandemic
trust in governments
global survey data
economic development
institutional quality
freedom of the press
JEL: 
I18
D81
C31
C83
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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