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The politicized pandemic: ideological polarization and the behavioral response to COVID-19

Grimalda, Gianluca; Murtin, Fabrice; Pipke, David; … - 2022

correlates positively with adherence to protective behaviors. Liberal political ideology predicts higher levels of protective … behavior than conservative ideology, independently of the differences in prosociality across the two groups. Differences …

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Who said or what said? : estimating ideological bias in views among economists

Javdani, Mohsen; Chang, Ha-joon - 2019

There exists a long-standing debate about the influence of ideology in economics. Surprisingly, however, there is no …

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The ideological roots of institutional change

Iyigun, Murat; Rubin, Jared - 2017

Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why do such conditions sometimes generate ideological backlashes and at other times lead to transformative sociopolitical movements? We propose an explanation that highlights the...

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Why are economics students more selfish than the rest?

Bauman, Yoram; Rose, Elaina - 2009

A substantial body of research suggests that economists are less generous than other professionals and that economics students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social programs by students at the University of Washington....

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On the heterogeneity of terror

Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Liebert, Helge; Schulze, Günther G. - 2012

The existing literature on the determinants of terrorism treats terror as a uniform phenomenon and does not distinguish between different types of terror. This paper explicitly addresses the heterogeneity of terror by classifying groups according to their ideologies. We show that the pattern of...

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How do voters respond to information? : evidence from a randomized campaign

Kendall, Chad; Nannicini, Tommaso; Trebbi, Francesco - 2013

expose different areas of the polity to controlled informational treatments about the valence and ideology of the incumbent … ideology. We find that both valence and ideological messages affect the first and second moments of the belief distribution …, but only campaigning on valence brings more votes to the incumbent. With respect to ideology, cross-learning occurs, as …

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Top-down vs. bottom-up : the long-term impact of government ideology and personal experience on values

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2013

capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately chose attitudes toward doping to test the impact of ideology on values since …

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The efficacy and efforts of interest groups in post elections policy formation

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2012

weighted by power. Our second result clarifies how the success of an interest group hinges on the dominance of its ideology in …

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The right look : conservative politicians look better and their voters reward it

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2011

right" use beauty as a cue for candidate ideology or quality in the municipal elections. -- beauty ; elections ; political … candidates ; appearance ; ideology ; parties …

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Economic science and political influence

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2012

influence can lead to degenerative research programs. -- ideology ; macroeconomic modelling ; self-confirming equilibria …

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