Table 5.

Feelings about the long-term evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic. Regressions as modeled in Equation (1). The dependent variables are the three main principal components, d.PC1, d.PC2 and d.PC3, described in Table A4, corresponding to question F2: “How do you think the pandemic situation will evolve in Italy in the next two years?”.

	d.PC1: Generic Pessimism			d.PC2: Optimism toward COVID-19 Vaccine			d.PC3: Uncertainty (Virus vs. Vaccine Campaign)
	Coeff.	St. Dev.	p-Value	Coeff.	St. Dev.	p-Value	Coeff.	St. Dev.	p-Value
Mother’s ed.: HS	−0.375	0.126	0.003	0.267	0.130	0.041	−0.043	0.130	0.742
Mother’s ed.: No HS	−0.336	0.132	0.011	0.297	0.135	0.028	0.138	0.135	0.307
Lyceum (ref: other HS)	−0.294	0.114	0.011	-	-	-	-	-	-
Small City (<20,000 inhabitants)	−0.152	0.104	0.146	-	-	-	-	-	-
South/islands (ref: north/center)	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.199	0.146	0.176
News: Sometimes	-	-	-	0.142	0.113	0.210	-	-	-
News: Often	-	-	-	0.095	0.148	0.521	-	-	-
Vaccinated: Yes	-	-	-	0.277	0.192	0.151	0.438	0.191	0.022
T1: Public good	0.289	0.155	0.063	−0.056	0.159	0.724	0.259	0.157	0.022
T2: Private good	0.009	0.158	0.953	−0.121	0.161	0.454	0.308	0.160	0.055
T3: Severe adverse effects	0.006	0.157	0.969	−0.156	0.162	0.336	0.259	0.160	0.105
T4: Mild adverse effects	−0.005	0.155	0.974	−0.059	0.158	0.707	0.301	0.156	0.054
Intercept	0.473	0.178	0.008	−0.465	0.249	0.062	−0.083	0.340	0.806
No. obs.	395			395			395
R-squared	0.060			0.027			0.037
Adj. R-squared	0.040			0.004			0.017
F-test	3.074 ***			1.181			1.872 *

To improve readability, the p-values in italics correspond to coefficients that are significant at a 10% level. Significance level of F-test: * 10%, *** 1%.