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Trust issues? : how being socialised in an autocracy shapes vaccine uptake
Boese, Vanessa Alexandra; Bayerlein, Michael; Gates, Scott - 2023 - This version: October 24, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic increased pressure on the relationship between governments and the public, making cooperation between both actors more critical than ever. Surprisingly, there is significant variation in public compliance with health policies, especially regarding vaccine uptake across...
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Spreading the disease : protest in times of pandemics
Lange, Martin; Monscheuer, Ole - 2021
This study analyzes the impact of COVID-19 deniers on the spread of COVID-19 in Germany. In a first step, we establish a link between regional proxies of COVID-19 deniers and infection rates. We then estimate the causal impact of large anti-lockdown protests on the spread of COVID-19 using an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430924
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Impacts of deforestation on the incidence of diseases in the Brazilian Amazon
Saccaro, Nilo Luiz; Mation, Lucas Ferreira; Sakowski, … - 2016
The limited knowledge about the effect of deforestation on human health is an important gap for environmental and health management in Brazil and worldwide. In order to assess its occurrence and magnitude, we performed a panel analysis, linking data on deforestation and reportable diseases by...
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Optimal lockdown and vaccination policies to contain the spread of a mutating infectious disease
Prieur, Fabien; Ruan, Weihua; Zou, Benteng - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337345
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Dealing with adversity: religiosity or science? : evidence from the great influenza pandemic
Berkes, Enrico; Coluccia, Davide M.; Dossi, Gaia; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014293802
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Pandemic recessions and contact tracing
Melosi, Leonardo; Rottner, Matthias - 2021
We study contact tracing in a new macro-epidemiological model in which infected agents may not show any symptoms of the disease and the availability of tests to detect asymptomatic spreaders is limited. Contact tracing is a testing strategy that aims to reconstruct the infection chain of newly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012628001
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Inflation expectations, inflation target credibility and the COVID-19 pandemic : new evidence from Germany
Coleman, Winnie; Nautz, Dieter - 2021
citizens in January 2019 that is designed to measure long-term inflation expectations and the credibility of the inflation … target. Our results indicate that credibility has decreased in our sample period, particularly in the course of the deep … several years, credibility has declined mainly because Germans increasingly expect that inflation will be much higher than 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012590362
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Covid-19 crisis fuels hostility against foreigners
Bartoš, Vojtěch; Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; … - 2020 - This version: June 2020, revised version
Aggressive behavior against out-group members often rises during periods of economic hardship and health pandemics. Here, we test the widespread concern that the Covid-19 crisis may fuel hostility against people from other nations or ethnic minorities. Using a controlled money-burning task, we...
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COVID-19 and pro-sociality: How do donors respond to local pandemic severity, increased salience, and media coverage?
Adena, Maja; Harke, Julian - 2021
order to answer these questions, we conducted a real-donation online experiment with more than 4,200 participants from 149 … experiment฀like approach, we studied how the relative local severity of the pandemic and media coverage about local COVID-19 … severity affected giving in our experiment. We found that both higher local severity and more related articles increased giving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624801
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COVID-19 and pro-sociality : how do donors respond to local pandemic severity, increased salience, and media coverage?
Adena, Maja; Harke, Julian - 2022
order to answer these questions, we conducted a real-donation online experiment with more than 4,200 participants from 149 … experiment-like approach, we studied how the relative local severity of the pandemic and media coverage about local COVID-19 … severity affected giving in our experiment. We found that both higher local severity and more related articles increased giving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193272