information about the location-specific pandemic trends from the effects of the government-imposed social distancing mandates … as a proxy for the information about the spread of the pandemic available to the population. A detailed index of … response. We find that human mobility does respond in a significant way to the information about the spread of the pandemic …

survey experiment with a representative sample, we study whether providing information about the safety, effectiveness, and … availability of COVID-19 vaccines affects compliance with public health guidelines. We find that vaccine information reduces … information induces people to believe in a swifter return to normal life and puts their vigilance at ease. The results indicate an …

A hidden cost of the COVID-19 pandemic is the stigma associated with the disease for those infected and groups that are … considered as more likely to be infected. This paper examines whether the provision of accurate and focused information about … Pradesh, India, in which we provide an information brief about COVID-19 by phone to a random subsample of participants to …