Attitudes towards Coronavirus Protection Measures among German School Students – the Effects of Education and Knowledge about the Pandemic

These data and Stata-Do-Files replicate the results from the paper \"Attitudes towards Coronavirus Protection Measures among German School Students – the Effects of Education and Knowledge about the Pandemic\". This paper addresses the question of how school students in Germany perceive the Coronavirus protection measures taken by policymakers. Based on this, it investigates to what extent a better understanding of the spread of the virus as well as in more general terms the students’ objective and self-perceived, subjective knowledge about the pandemic impact their assessment of the situation. The analyses are based on a sample of 563 German school students (ages 12-25). Part I of the analysis shows that after more than two years of the Covid-19 pandemic 1) a significant exponential growth bias (EGB) is still existent, 2) this bias can be reduced by giving simple educational nudges but 3) this treatment has neither a major effect on the general approval of anti-COVID-19 measures nor on the willingness of the participants to perform specific protective measures themselves. Part II illustrates that both subjective and objective knowledge increase the approval/willingness for most protective measures.

本数据集与Stata脚本文件（Stata-Do-Files）可复现论文《德国中学生对新冠防疫措施的态度——教育与疫情认知的影响》中的研究结果。该研究旨在探讨德国中学生如何看待政策制定者出台的新冠防疫措施，并在此基础上分析：对病毒传播机制的深入认知，以及更宽泛层面上学生对疫情的客观认知与自我感知的主观认知，在多大程度上会影响其对当前疫情形势的判断。本次分析的样本涵盖563名年龄介于12至25岁的德国中学生。分析第一部分结果显示，在新冠疫情持续两年多之后：1）显著的指数增长偏差（exponential growth bias, EGB）依然存在；2）通过简单的教育助推（educational nudges）可降低该偏差；3）但该干预手段既未对参与者整体认可新冠防疫措施产生显著影响，也未显著提升其主动落实具体防疫措施的意愿。分析第二部分则表明，学生的主观认知与客观认知均能提升其对多数防疫措施的认可度与落实意愿。