Messenger effects in COVID-19 communication: Does the level of government matter?

• Main Authors: Nathen Favero (Author), Sebastian Jilke (Author), Julia A. Wolfson (Author), Chengxin Xu (Author), Matthew M. Young (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Public efforts to limit the spread of the coronavirus rely on motivating people to cooperate with the government. We test the effectiveness of different governmental messengers to encourage preventive health actions. We administered a survey experiment among a sample (n = 1,545) of respondents acros...