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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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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 …
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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 …
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This paper examines the effect of national government response measures to Covid-19 on German international capital flows. Analyzing highly disaggregated monthly data from the German balance of payments statistics over the period from January 2019 through January 2021, we find that bilateral...
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approach is the insight that epidemic dynamics are best tracked over stages, rather than over time. We use a normalization … procedure that makes the pre-policy paths of the epidemic identical across regions. The procedure uncovers regional variation in … the stage of the epidemic at the time of policy implementation. This variation delivers clean identification of the policy …
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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...
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