Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/245919 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 978
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
We study the role of education during the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy. We compare the trends of mortality rates between municipalities with different shares of educated residents between 2012 and 2020, by means of a continuous event study model and controlling for many confounders. We find that education played a protective role, significantly reducing mortality rates, during the first wave of the pandemic (between March and May 2020), but not during the second wave (between October and December 2020). We tentatively interpret this finding as the outcome of the interplay between education and public health communication, whose coherence and consistency varied between the different stages of the epidemic.
Subjects: 
COVID-19
education
excess mortality
municipality
parallel trend
public health communication
JEL: 
I14
I18
I26
R00
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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