Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Slotwinski, … - 2020
We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for … capital and Covid-19 cases to show that high-social-capital areas accumulated between 12% and 32% fewer Covid-19 cases per … capita from mid-March until mid-May. Using Italy as a case study, we find that high-social-capital areas exhibit lower excess …