Education and COVID-19 excess mortality.
Econ Hum Biol
; 47: 101194, 2022 Dec.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2251740
ABSTRACT
We study the role of education during the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy. We compare excess mortality in 2020 and 2021 compared to the pre-pandemic mortality between municipalities with different shares of educated residents. We find that education initially played a strong protective role, which however quickly faded out. After pondering several alternative explanations, we tentatively interpret this finding as the outcome of the interplay between education, information and public health communication, whose availability and coherence varied along the epidemic.
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
English
Journal:
Econ Hum Biol
Journal subject:
Biology
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Social Sciences
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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