Coronavirus Perceptions and Economic Anxiety
利用全球互联网搜索数据和美国代表性调查，研究了新冠疫情初期经济焦虑的形成与决定因素，发现人们对病毒风险的认知差异会因果性地影响其经济焦虑水平。
Abstract We provide one of the first systematic assessments of the development and determinants of economic anxiety at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Using a global data set on internet searches and two representative surveys from the United States, we document a substantial increase in economic anxiety during and after the arrival of the coronavirus. We also document a large dispersion in beliefs about the pandemic risk factors of the coronavirus and demonstrate that these beliefs causally affect individuals' economic anxieties. Finally, we show that individuals' mental models of infectious disease spread understate nonlinear growth and shape the extent of economic anxiety.