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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 …

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Vertical transmission of overweight : evidence from English adoptees

Costa-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....

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Modern body mass index values, marital status, and household size : 1980s to the present

Carson, Scott Alan - 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...

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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...

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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...

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Dissonance minimization and conversation in social networks

Anufriev, Mikhail; Borissov, Kirill; Pakhnin, Mikhail - 2021

We study a model of social learning in networks where the dynamics of beliefs are driven by conversations of dissonance-minimizing agents. Given their current beliefs, agents make statements, tune them to the statements of their associates, and then revise their beliefs. We characterize the...

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Cities and the structure of social interactions : evidence from mobile phone data

Büchel, Konstantin; Ehrlich, Maximilian von - 2017

Social interactions are considered pivotal to agglomeration economies. We explore a unique dataset on mobile phone calls to examine how distance and population density shape the structure of social interactions. Exploiting an exogenous change in travel times, we show that distance is highly...

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Fighting climate change : the role of norms, preferences, and moral values

Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Anand … - 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...

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Learning from the origins

Yarkin, Alexander - 2023

How do political preferences and voting behaviors respond to information coming from abroad? Focusing on the international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to...

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Politicized scientists : credibility cost of political expression on Twitter

Alabrese, Eleonora; Capozza, Francesco; Garg, Prashant - 2024

The study measures scientists’ polarization on social media and its impact on public perceptions of their credibility. Analyzing 98,000 scientists on Twitter from 2016 to 2022 reveals significant divergence in expressed political opinions. An experiment assesses the impact of online political...

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