Fig. 2.

Effect of social capital on the spread of Covid-19 cases. The figure presents the differential evolution of the relationship between cumulative Covid-19 infections per 100,000 inhabitants and social capital across time. The estimates are based on the model outlined in equation (1) (see Appendix Table C1 for the point estimates). The first dashed line marks the date of the national lockdown, the second dashed line the date of the national lockdown plus 12 days to account for incubation plus confirmation time. Since there was no official lockdown in Sweden, no dashed lines are displayed in panel (g). The dark (light) blue area corresponds to the 90% (95%) confidence interval. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)