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AntiCOVID-19#10 Howshouldthegovernment’scrisismeasuresbecommunicated?Throughfrequentrepetition April2020
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IDEA anti COVID-19 # 10
How should the government’s crisis measures be communicated?
Through frequent repetition1 APRIL 2020
Václav Korbel, Vladimír Novák, Michal Šoltés, Lukáš Tóth
Brief summary
• About three weeks after the first case of COVID-19 infection in the Czech Republic was confirmed, i.e. on 20th - 21st March, we carried out a survey to find out how the way government measures are communicated affects residents’ willingness to abide by them. Our main findings were published in IDEA anti COVID-19 study # 7. We supplemented our questionnaire with an experiment in which we provided five different pieces of information about the government measures to five randomly selected groups of people. This study focuses on presenting the results of that experiment.
1 This study represents the authors’ own views and not the official position of the Czech Academy of Sciences' Economics Institute (EI) nor of the Charles University Centre for Economic Research and Graduate Education (CERGE). We are grateful to Vojtěch Bartoš, Lubomír Cingl and Daniel Münich for their valuable advice and comments, and to Tomáš Šebek and Do Thu Trang for their willingness to work with us. This study was produced as part of a joint project between Behavio Labs and the IDEA think-tank. The study was produced with support from the Czech Academy of Sciences as part of its AV21 Strategy programme.
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