Book contents
- Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics
- Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics
- Part I Evidence from Experiments and Behavioural Insights
- 2 What Have We Learned from Behavioural Economics for the COVID-19 Response?
- 3 Adaptation, COVID-19, and Climate Change
- 4 Risk-Taking, Risk Perception, and Risk Compensation in Times of COVID-19
- 5 A False Sense of Security?
- 6 Preparing for the Next Pandemic
- 7 Human Challenge Trials for Research on COVID-19 and Beyond
- 8 Do the Public Support ‘Hard’ or ‘Soft’ Public Policies?
- 9 One Size Does Not Fit All
- 10 Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 11 Behavioural Science and the Irish COVID-19 Response
- 12 On the Use of Behavioural Science in a Pandemic
- 13 Behavioural Public Health?
- Part II Health Behaviours and Policies during Covid-19
- Index
- References
2 - What Have We Learned from Behavioural Economics for the COVID-19 Response?
from Part I - Evidence from Experiments and Behavioural Insights
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2025
Book contents
- Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics
- Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics
- Part I Evidence from Experiments and Behavioural Insights
- 2 What Have We Learned from Behavioural Economics for the COVID-19 Response?
- 3 Adaptation, COVID-19, and Climate Change
- 4 Risk-Taking, Risk Perception, and Risk Compensation in Times of COVID-19
- 5 A False Sense of Security?
- 6 Preparing for the Next Pandemic
- 7 Human Challenge Trials for Research on COVID-19 and Beyond
- 8 Do the Public Support ‘Hard’ or ‘Soft’ Public Policies?
- 9 One Size Does Not Fit All
- 10 Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 11 Behavioural Science and the Irish COVID-19 Response
- 12 On the Use of Behavioural Science in a Pandemic
- 13 Behavioural Public Health?
- Part II Health Behaviours and Policies during Covid-19
- Index
- References
Summary
In this chapter, we distil and summarise the key lessons we have learned during the pandemic and the subsequent policy responses from behavioural economics, that is, the interdisciplinary field that combines and cross-fertilises insights from economics and psychology. There are three main take-home lessons, we believe, that could help advance our understanding of human behaviour in a time of a pandemic and for enhancing the preparedness of international institutions and governments for future pandemics and epidemics: (i) people are heterogeneous, and we should therefore fully account for human heterogeneity; (ii) our behavioural interventions must be heterogeneous as well – we need to use a full and diverse spectrum of behavioural interventions – going beyond 'nudges' when needed – and we should acknowledge heterogeneity in individual responses to such interventions; and (iii) as it is not clear upfront what will work for whom, we should engage more systematically with randomised controlled experiments for future pandemic responses.
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- Behavioural Economics and Policy for PandemicsInsights from Responses to COVID-19, pp. 11 - 41Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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