When we talk about state capacity to deal with COVID, we shouldn’t ignore interpersonal trust

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Dann, Chris (2022) When we talk about state capacity to deal with COVID, we shouldn’t ignore interpersonal trust. LSE COVID-19 Blog (05 Jan 2022). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Countries with the fiscal means to pay people to stay at home had an advantage during the pandemic. But there is also an important association between levels of interpersonal trust and COVID mortality, say Tim Besley and Chris Dann (LSE) — and this aspect of state capacity could prove to have been very important.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/
Additional Information:	© 2022 The Authors
Divisions:	Economics STICERD
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
Date Deposited:	14 Mar 2022 14:48
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2024 04:47
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/114134

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