Table 6 The effect of cultural tightness on the spread of COVID-19.

From: A small global village: the effects of collectivist, tight and Confucian cultures on the spread of COVID-19

Dependent variable: CASE_GROWTH

Variables

Model (1)

Model (2)

LN(TIGHTNESS)

−4.300***

−6.864***

 

(−6.708)

(−7.117)

SARS

 

−4.437***

  

(−5.764)

LN(POPULATION)

 

1.635***

  

(4.890)

AGE65

 

−0.363***

  

(−3.538)

LN(GDP)

 

−0.344

  

(−0.436)

SMOKE

 

−0.262***

  

(−3.727)

LN(LENIENT_ENFORCEMENT)

 

9.238***

  

(11.081)

PROTESTANT

 

−0.108***

  

(−5.681)

CATHOLIC

 

−0.014

  

(−0.987)

MUSLIM

 

0.126***

  

(7.612)

Continent FE

Control

Control

Month FE

Control

Control

Observations

10,095

9472

R-squared

0.657

0.679

  1. The t-values are reported in parentheses. The symbol of *** respectively indicates the 1% significance level.