The University, LIS Datacenter and LISER invite you for of the monthly seminar on social inequality and public policies, which will be held due to COVID-19.ONLINE and IN-PERSON
Title: Health Versus Wealth During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Saving Lives or Saving the Economy?
Abstract: Efforts to combat the COVID-19 crisis were characterized by a difficult trade-off: the stringency of the lockdowns decreased the spread of the virus, but amplified the damage to the economy. We analyze public attitude toward this trade-off using a survey-embedded experiment conducted with a quota sample of more than 7,000 respondents from Southeast Europe, collected in April and May 2020. The results show that public opinion generally favored saving lives even at a steep economic cost. However, the willingness to trade lives for the economy was greater when the heterogeneous health and economic consequences of lockdown policies for the young and the elderly were emphasized. Free-market views also make people more accepting of higher casualties, as do fears that the instituted measures will lead to a permanent expansion of government control over society.
Wednesday 18/01 MSH LISER oom 1st floor
SEMILUX
https://unilu.webex.com/unilu/j.php?MTID=mad00508ea712f0a669fccad9c9da92f1
Meeting number: 2734 524 1272
Password: MpvZm9XqY48