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.