Valentina Di Stasio und Tobias Stark: The role of social networks in promoting compliance with social distancing measures: evidence from the Netherlands

In their study, based on survey evidence from a representative
sample of Dutch respondents taking part in an online panel,
Valentina Di Stasio and Tobias Stark examine the association
between the social norms of one's social network and the likelihood
to comply with social distancing measures to prevent the spread of
Covid-19. Their results show that compliance is stronger for people
whose network members follow the rules (descriptive social norm)
and expect others to do the same (injunctive social norm). They
also present results from a survey experiment in which they test
whether this association can be given a causal interpretation.