Work-related and personal predictors of Covid-19 transmission

Anand, Paul, Allen, Heidi, Ferrer, Bob, Gold, Natalie, Martinez, Roland Manuel Gonzalez, Kontopantelis, Evangelos and Vergunst, Francis (2020) Work-related and personal predictors of Covid-19 transmission. IZA Discussion Papers (13493). IZA (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit), Bonn, Germany.

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Abstract

The paper provides new evidence from a survey of 2000 individuals in the US and UK related to predictors of Covid-19 transmission. Specifically, it investigates work and personal predictors of transmission experience reported by respondents using regression models to better understand possible transmission pathways and mechanisms in the community. Three themes emerge from the analysis. Firstly, transport roles and travelling practices are significant predictors of infection. Secondly, evidence from the US especially shows union membership, consultation over safety measures and the need to use public transport to get to work are also significant predictors. This is interpreted as evidence of the role of deprivation and of reactive workplace consultations. Thirdly and finally, there is some, often weaker, evidence that income, car-owership, use of a shared kitchen, university degree type, risk aversion, extraversion and height are predictors of transmission. The comparative nature of the evidence indicates that the less uniformly stringent nature of the US lockdown provides more information about both structural and individual factors that predict transmission. The evidence about height is discussed in the context of the aerosol transmission debate. The paper concludes that both structural and individual factors must be taken into account when predicting transmission or designing effective public health measures and messages to prevent or contain transmission.

Item Type:	Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Additional Information:	© 2020 IZA
Divisions:	CPNSS
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
JEL classification:	I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I0 - General > I00 - General I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I12 - Health Production: Nutrition, Mortality, Morbidity, Suicide, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Disability, and Economic Behavior I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Date Deposited:	08 Sep 2020 13:09
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 04:10
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/106520

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