Cultural differences, intergenerational contacts, and the spread of Covid-19 : Evidence from Swiss language regions
The Covid-19 pandemic displayed large variations between and within countries in the speed of contagion and in observed fatality rates. This work sheds light on the role of social ties in old age, exploiting the high cultural variation between German-speaking and Latin- (French- and Italian-) speaking regions in Switzerland. We show that older adults in Latin-speaking regions exhibit a larger social network and more intergenerational contacts than their German-speaking counterparts. These differences are consistent with the heterogeneous incidence of the disease across language regions. Even controlling for several determinants of the contagion, we find large differences in the incidence of Covid-19 among older adults, in both the first and second waves of the pandemic. These findings also hold when exploiting language variations within the three Swiss bilingual cantons. We rule out the possibility that our results are driven by differences in canton-specific policies or in citizens' compliance with containment measures.
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2023 |
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2023 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:77 |
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Population studies - 77(2023), 1 vom: 02. März, Seite 111-121 |
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Englisch |
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Mazzonna, Fabrizio [VerfasserIn] |
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Covid-19 |
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Date Completed 01.03.2023 Date Revised 09.03.2023 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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10.1080/00324728.2022.2155691 |
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