Daoust, Jean-François, Bélanger, Eric, Dassonneville, Ruth, Lachapelle, Erick, Nadeau, Richard, Becher, Michael, Brouard, Sylvain, Foucault, Martial, Hönninge, Christoph and Stegmueller, Daniel (2021) A guilt-free strategy increases self-reported non-compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures: Experimental evidence from 12 countries. Plos One, vol.16 (n°4).

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Official URL : http://iast.fr/pub/125672
Identification Number : 10.1371/journal.pone.0249914

Abstract

Studies of citizens’ compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures routinely rely on survey data. While such data are essential, public health restrictions provide clear signals of what is socially desirable in this context, creating a potential source of response bias in self-reported measures of compliance. In this research, we examine whether the results of a guilt-free strategy recently proposed to lessen this constraint are generalizable across twelve countries, and whether the treatment effect varies across subgroups. Our findings show that the guilt-free strategy is a useful tool in every country included, increasing respondents’ proclivity to report non-compliance by 9 to 16 percentage points. This effect holds for different subgroups based on gender, age and education. We conclude that the inclusion of this strategy should be the new standard for survey research that aims to provide crucial data on the current pandemic.

Item Type: Article
Language: English
Date: April 2021
Refereed: Yes
Place of Publication: San Francisco
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 01 Jun 2021 08:47
Last Modified: 01 Jun 2021 08:47
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:125672
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/43580
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