TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Anand, Paul
AU  - Allen, Heidi
AU  - Ferrer, Robert
AU  - Gold, Natalie
AU  - Martinez, Rolando Gonzales
AU  - Kontopantelis, Evan
AU  - Krause, Melanie
AU  - Vergunst, Francis
        TI  - Work-Related and Personal Predictors of COVID-19 Transmission
        PY  - 2020/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13493
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13493
        AB  - The paper provides new evidence from a survey of 2000 individuals in the US and UK related to predictors of Covid-19 transmission. Specifically, it investigates work and personal predictors of transmission experience reported by respondents using regression models to better understand possible transmission pathways and mechanisms in the community. Three themes emerge from the analysis. Firstly, transport roles and travelling practices are significant predictors of infection. Secondly, evidence from the US especially shows union membership, consultation over safety measures and the need to use public transport to get to work are also significant predictors. This is interpreted as evidence of the role of deprivation and of reactive workplace consultations. 
Thirdly and finally, there is some, often weaker, evidence that income, car-owership, use of a shared kitchen, university degree type, riskaversion, extraversion and height are predictors of transmission. The comparative nature of the evidence indicates that the less uniformly stringent nature of the US lockdown provides more information about both structural and individual factors that predict transmission. The evidence about height is discussed in the context of the aerosol transmission debate. The paper concludes that both structural and individual factors must be taken into account when predicting transmission or designing effective public health measures and messages to prevent or contain transmission.
        KW  - risk preference
KW  - deprivation
KW  - workplace
KW  - transport
KW  - predictors
KW  - transmission
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - extraversion
KW  - height
KW  - US
KW  - UK
        ER  -