ABSTRACT

We examine whether a community’s cultural origin affects COVID-19 infection rates by exploiting cultural differences in the bilingual province of South Tyrol in Northern Italy. We find lower infection rates in municipalities with a relatively higher proportion of German speakers, even after controlling for widely used measures of social and civic capital. Our findings can be explained by a more future-oriented behaviour of German speakers in comparison with Italian speakers.

中文翻译：

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文化起源对 COVID-19 感染率的影响

摘要

我们通过利用意大利北部南蒂罗尔双语省的文化差异来研究社区的文化起源是否会影响 COVID-19 感染率。我们发现，即使在控制了广泛使用的社会和公民资本衡量标准之后，德语使用者比例相对较高的城市的感染率也较低。我们的研究结果可以用德语使用者与意大利语使用者相比更具面向未来的行为来解释。