Table 2.
Prosociality predicts health behaviors controlling for other preferences, worries, health, and personality.
| Dependent variable: | Specification: | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | |
| Health behaviors index 1 | 0.40∗∗∗ | 0.36∗∗∗ | 0.31∗∗∗ | 0.35∗∗∗ | 0.31∗∗∗ | 0.29∗∗∗ | 0.31∗∗∗ | 0.29∗∗∗ |
| (0.12) | (0.12) | (0.12) | (0.12) | (0.12) | (0.12) | (0.12) | (0.12) | |
| Health behaviors index 2 | 0.39∗∗∗ | 0.36∗∗∗ | 0.30∗∗∗ | 0.33∗∗∗ | 0.29∗∗∗ | 0.28∗∗∗ | 0.29∗∗∗ | 0.28∗∗∗ |
| (0.12) | (0.12) | (0.12) | (0.11) | (0.11) | (0.11) | (0.11) | (0.11) | |
| Health behaviors index 3 | 0.26∗∗∗ | 0.23∗∗∗ | 0.20∗∗∗ | 0.19∗∗∗ | 0.17∗∗ | 0.18∗∗ | 0.17∗∗ | 0.18∗∗ |
| (0.08) | (0.08) | (0.08) | (0.08) | (0.08) | (0.08) | (0.08) | (0.08) | |
| Health behaviors index 4 | 0.24∗∗ | 0.24∗∗ | 0.19∗ | 0.24∗∗ | 0.21∗∗ | 0.20∗∗ | 0.20∗∗ | 0.20∗∗ |
| (0.12) | (0.12) | (0.13) | (0.12) | (0.12) | (0.12) | (0.12) | (0.12) | |
| Buys cloth face mask | 0.20∗∗ | 0.21∗∗ | 0.23∗∗ | 0.20∗∗ | 0.23∗∗ | 0.23∗∗ | 0.22∗∗ | 0.23∗∗ |
| (0.10) | (0.10) | (0.10) | (0.10) | (0.10) | (0.10) | (0.10) | (0.10) | |
| Information seeking | 0.17∗ | 0.14∗ | 0.12 | 0.14 | 0.13 | 0.13 | 0.13 | 0.13 |
| (0.10) | (0.11) | (0.11) | (0.11) | (0.11) | (0.11) | (0.11) | (0.11) | |
| Donation to COVID-19 fund | 0.84∗∗∗ | 0.82∗∗∗ | 0.82∗∗∗ | 0.80∗∗∗ | 0.81∗∗∗ | 0.80∗∗∗ | 0.80∗∗∗ | 0.80∗∗∗ |
| (0.11) | (0.11) | (0.11) | (0.11) | (0.11) | (0.11) | (0.11) | (0.11) | |
| Controls: | ||||||||
| Age and gender | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Sociodemographics | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Date and county | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Risk and time preferences | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||
| Beliefs, worries, and health | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||
| Big 5 | yes | yes | ||||||
| Trust | yes | yes | ||||||
| Individuals | 967 | 967 | 967 | 967 | 967 | 967 | 967 | 967 |
Note: The table shows coefficient estimates from linear regressions of the outcome variable (shown on the left and described in Fig. 2) on prosociality. Heteroscedasticity robust standard errors are shown in parentheses. Sociodemographics include dummies for all education, number of children, household income, occupation, and marital status categories (see Appendix Table C.2 for all categories). Date and county refers to including categorical dummies for counties and response dates. In addition, regressions (3) and (5)-(8) also control for participants’ risk aversion, beliefs about others’ risk aversion, and patience. Regressions (4)-(8) control for participants’ life expectancy (a proxy of their health) and whether participants worry about getting infected, that the healthcare will not be able to offer good care to everyone, that their finances will be hit hard, and that the Swedish economy will be hit hard. Regressions (6) and (8) control for the Big Five traits and regressions (7)-(8) for trust. As preregistered, p-values are based on one-sided tests. * , ** , *** .