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Narrative Economics, Public Policy and Mental Health
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Frederic Boy ,
Don J. Webber
Applied Research in Quality of Life, Volume: 18
Swansea University Authors:
Annie Tubadji , Frederic Boy
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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/s11482-022-10109-0
Abstract
General public’s mental health can be affected by the public policy response to a pandemic threat. Britain, Italy and Sweden have had very distinct approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic: early lock-down, delayed lock-down and no-lock-down. We develop a novel narrative economics of language Culture-Bas...
| Published in: | Applied Research in Quality of Life |
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| ISSN: | 1871-2584 1871-2576 |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2022
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61322 |
| Abstract: |
General public’s mental health can be affected by the public policy response to a pandemic threat. Britain, Italy and Sweden have had very distinct approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic: early lock-down, delayed lock-down and no-lock-down. We develop a novel narrative economics of language Culture-Based Development approach, and using Google trend data for seed keywords, death and suicide, we reach two main conclusions: (i) while countries had a pre-existing culturally relative disposition towards death-related anxiety, the sensitivity to the public policy towards COVID-19 was also country specific; (ii) however, significant spillovers from one specific national lockdown public policy to another country’s mental health are identified. |
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| Keywords: |
Culture based development; Cultural narrative; Narrative economics; COVID-19; Public policy; Health; Cultural hysteresis; Shocks |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |