@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp13310,
            	author={Bartscher, Alina Kristin and Seitz, Sebastian and Siegloch, Sebastian and Slotwinski, Michaela and Wehrhöfer, Nils},
            	title={Social Capital and the Spread of COVID-19: Insights from European Countries},
            	year={2020},
	month={May},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={13310},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13310},
	abstract={We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one standard deviation increase in social capital leads to 12% and 32% fewer Covid-19 cases per capita accumulated from mid-March until mid-May. Using Italy as a case study, we find that high-social-capital areas exhibit lower excess mortality and a decline in mobility. Our results have important implications for the design of local containment policies in future waves of the pandemic.},
	keywords={collective action;social capital;COVID-19;health costs;Europe},
            }