We also used several country-level variables. Covid deaths per million w retrieved from the online database “Our World In Data” and indicates the total number of COVID-19 attributed deaths per 1 million inhabitants on each country’s last day of the SHARE fieldwork. The Stringency Index, also taken from “Our World In Data,” is a composite measure based on nine response indicators, including school closures, workplace closures, and travel bans, rescaled to a value of 0–100 (100 = strictest). If policies vary at the subnational level, the index refers to the strictest subregion (29 (link)). GINI coefficient of income inequality was retrieved from the Eurostat website using 2018 data (30 (link)). Finally, GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power parity (USD PPP) was retrieved from the World Bank website and refers to the year 2019 (31 ).
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