@article{ref1,
title="Narrative economics, public policy and mental health",
journal="Applied research in quality of life",
year="2022",
author="Tubadji, Annie and Boy, Frederic and Webber, Don J.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="General public's mental health can be affected by the public policy response to a pandemic threat. Britain, Italy and Sweden have had very distinct approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic: early lock-down, delayed lock-down and no-lock-down. We develop a novel narrative economics of language Culture-Based Development approach, and using Google trend data for seed keywords, death and suicide, we reach two main conclusions: (i) while countries had a pre-existing culturally relative disposition towards death-related anxiety, the sensitivity to the public policy towards COVID-19 was also country specific; (ii) however, significant spillovers from one specific national lockdown public policy to another country's mental health are identified.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1871-2584",
doi="10.1007/s11482-022-10109-0",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11482-022-10109-0"
}