Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Project Overview

The goal of this research is to trace and examine individual-level behavioral responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in multiple European countries, using a variety of survey-experimental methods. The main project on this topic, led by Tim Büthe jointly with Prof. Dr. Janina Steinert (HfP/TUM-Professor of Global Health), is part of PERISCOPE, the largest EU-funded social science project on COVID-19 and its consequences, with 31 partners across 16 European countries. It focuses on vaccine hesitancy; compliance with a broad range of recommendations, stipulations, and requirements put forth by governments and non- governmental bodies; voters' preferences concerning the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines between the Global North and South; and political consequences of the pandemic. A second project, led by Tim Büthe jointly with Prof. Dr. Matthias Uhl examines the ethics of vaccine distribution and more generally the distribution of critical medical supplies.

Project Members

• Tim Büthe
• Henrike Sternberg

+ Prof. Dr. Janina Steinert; + Prof. Dr. Matthias Uhl, Anja Bodenschatz & Gari Walkowitz (TH Ingolstadt)