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Fear, Trust and Demand for Regulation: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic in Russia
Borisova, Ekaterina; Frye, Timothy; Schoors, Koen; … - 2022
, existing theories rooted in market failure and government failure have focused on various forms of trust, but have paid little … attention to fear. We test how fear and trust shape demand for government regulation by drawing on especially precise measures … fear of contracting the virus is directly related to greater demand for regulation. In addition, the impact of trust is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290066
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Vertical Transmission of Overweight: Evidence from English Adoptees
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Le Grand, Julian - 2015
We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non-adopted, and their families. Our results suggest strong evidence of an intergenerational association of overweight among adoptees, indicating transmission through cultural factors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531830
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Modern body mass index values, marital status, and household size: 1980s to the present
Carson, Scott A. - 2019
The body mass index (BMI) is the primary means of classifying obesity and reflects a complex set of interactions related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height, and height reflects the cumulative price of net...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018329
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Modern Body Mass Index Values, Marital Status, and Household Size : 1980s to the Present
Carson, Scott A. - 2019
The body mass index (BMI) is the primary means of classifying obesity and reflects a complex set of interactions related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height, and height reflects the cumulative price of net...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866408
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Complementarities, Coordination, and Culture
Ellis, Christopher J.; Thompson, Jon C.; Wu, Jiabin - 2016
We develop a new model of the intergenerational transmission of culture based on the labor market characteristics of different cultural types. Following Borjas (1994,1995) we assume that cultural heterogeneity increases labor productivity due to skill complementarities, however following Jackson...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522449
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Covid-19 Outbreak, Social Response, and Early Economic Effects: A Global VAR Analysis of Cross-Country Interdependencies
Milani, Fabio - 2020
This paper studies the social and economic responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in a large sample of countries. I stress, in particular, the importance of countries' interconnections to un-derstand the spread of the virus. I estimate a Global VAR model and exploit a dataset on existing social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269588
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COVID-19 Outbreak, Social Response, and Early Economic Effects : A Global VAR Analysis of Cross-Country Interdependencies
Milani, Fabio - 2020
This paper studies the social and economic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in a large sample of countries. I stress, in particular, the importance of countries' interconnections to un-derstand the spread of the virus. I estimate a Global VAR model and exploit a dataset on existing social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824578
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Fear, Trust and Demand for Regulation : Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia
Borisova, Ekaterina; Frye, Timothy; Schoors, Koen J. L.; … - 2023
, existing theories rooted in market failure and government failure have focused on various forms of trust, but have paid little … attention to fear. We test how fear and trust shape demand for government regulation by drawing on especially precise measures … fear of contracting the virus is directly related to greater demand for regulation. In addition, the impact of trust is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261477
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Optimal policy towards families with different amounts of social capital, in the presence of asymmetric information and stochastic fertility
Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2006
We examine the effects of differences in social capital on first and second best transfers to families with children, in an asymmetric information context where the number of births, and the future earning capacity of each child that is born, are random variables. The probability that a couple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261415
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Fighting Climate Change: The Role of Norms, Preferences, and Moral Values
Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Chopra, Felix - 2021
We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change – as measured through an incentivized donation decision – is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657881