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. 2021 May 12;204:109892. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109892

Table 1.

Social-human incidence of COVID-19 and number of epidemics in the past.

Dependent variable: COVID-19 deaths per million, period after death 10
1 month 1 month 1 month 3 month 3 month 3 month end-2020 end-2020 end-2020
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
# epidemics −0.305*** −0.285*** −0.249*** −0.235*** −0.167* −0.169* −0.257*** −0.195** −0.180***
(0.000) (0.000) (0.008) (0.004) (0.097) (0.081) (0.000) (0.014) (0.008)
Spatial lag 0.195* 0.199* 0.173 0.265** 0.356*** 0.306*** 0.306*** 0.372*** 0.312***
(0.083) (0.067) (0.134) (0.019) (0.002) (0.007) (0.000) (0.000) (0.000)
NPIs index −0.024 0.189*** 0.177*** 0.283*** 0.311***
(0.661) (0.002) (0.006) (0.000) (0.000)
Urban −0.020 0.033 0.067 0.082 0.135*
(0.835) (0.748) (0.518) (0.282) (0.061)
Temperature 0.098 −0.063 −0.112 0.103 −0.092
(0.298) (0.535) (0.252) (0.129) (0.183)
Household size 0.129 0.213* 0.163 0.119 0.133*
(0.227) (0.062) (0.148) (0.184) (0.086)
GNI per capita 0.252* 0.209 0.135 0.129 0.013
(0.074) (0.166) (0.373) (0.278) (0.905)
Africa 0.704*** 0.676*** 0.476* 0.096 −0.112 0.001 −0.125 −0.325 −0.099
(0.003) (0.007) (0.072) (0.725) (0.695) (0.996) (0.526) (0.140) (0.628)
Oceania −0.616 −0.637 −0.762 −1.076** −1.338*** −1.202** −0.831** −1.422*** −0.811**
(0.183) (0.164) (0.102) (0.031) (0.007) (0.012) (0.017) (0.000) (0.016)
North America 1.096*** 1.035*** 0.700 1.389*** 1.139** 1.177** 0.845*** 0.909** 0.923**
(0.006) (0.009) (0.164) (0.001) (0.035) (0.023) (0.005) (0.036) (0.011)
Central-South 0.851*** 0.897*** 0.643** 0.655** 0.532* 0.575* 0.456** 0.501** 0.557**
America (0.001) (0.001) (0.031) (0.020) (0.097) (0.066) (0.021) (0.046) (0.011)
Asia 0.254 0.236 −0.063 −0.121 −0.413 −0.379 −0.066 −0.146 −0.058
(0.293) (0.341) (0.823) (0.652) (0.170) (0.201) (0.727) (0.535) (0.781)
Europe 0.979*** 0.945*** 0.952*** 0.582*** 0.460* 0.424* 0.688*** 0.649*** 0.751***
(0.000) (0.000) (0.000) (0.001) (0.052) (0.061) (0.000) (0.001) (0.000)
EME −0.618*** −0.690*** −0.506** −0.342 −0.191 −0.323 −0.135 −0.191 −0.263
(0.002) (0.001) (0.037) (0.137) (0.463) (0.213) (0.403) (0.343) (0.149)
Large country −0.322*** −0.254** −0.178 −0.052 0.090 0.114 −0.013 0.168 0.029
(0.008) (0.041) (0.175) (0.697) (0.524) (0.409) (0.893) (0.131) (0.765)

Observations 150 143 126 143 126 123 143 132 123
R-squared 0.573 0.584 0.607 0.509 0.506 0.558 0.723 0.700 0.773

Notes: () [] denotes statistical significance at 10% (5%) [1%]. Robust p-values in parentheses. Spatial regressions based on contiguity. All non-dummy variables are in logs and standardized. See main text of the paper for the definition of the variables.