Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 207
Cover Image
Stay-at-home orders, social distancing and trust
Brodeur, Abel; Grigoryeva, Idaliya; Kattan, Lamis - 2020
- essential visitation, we find that: stay-at-home orders reduce mobility by about 8{10 percentage points; high-trust counties … decrease their mobility significantly more than low-trust counties post-lockdown; and counties with relatively more self …-lockdown is especially large for trust in the press, and relatively smaller for trust in science, medicine or government. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221757
Cover Image
Stay-at-home orders, social distancing and trust
Brodeur, Abel; Grigoryeva, Idaliya; Kattan, Lamis - 2021
-at-home orders in the U.S., focusing on trust and social capital. Using cell phone data measuring changes in non-essential visitation … and average distance traveled, we find that high-trust counties decrease their mobility significantly more than low-trust … effect on post-order compliance is especially large for confidence in the press and governmental institutions, and relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012432479
Cover Image
Coronagraben in Switzerland : culture and social distancing in times of COVID-19
Deopa, Neha; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe - 2021
Social distancing measures help contain the spread of COVID-19 but the actual compliance has varied substantially across space and time. We ask whether cultural differences underlie this heterogeneity using mobility data across Switzerland between February and December 2020. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549091
Cover Image
A year of pandemic : levels, changes and validity of well-being data from Twitter : evidence from ten countries
Sarracino, Francesco; Greyling, Talita; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021
its correlates. We take advantage of a unique data-set made of daily observations about GNH, generalized trust and trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012506627
Cover Image
From perception to action : the influence of distrust in government on panic buying in the COVID-19 era
Sari, Emre - 2023 - This version: JULY, 2023
This research explores the complex dynamics of panic buying during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a comprehensive cross-sectional dataset from an online survey conducted in Turkiye, I employ the control ¨ function approach to examine the psychological and societal effects of the pandemic. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014308856
Cover Image
The slippery slope from pluralistic to plural societies
Campigotto, Nicola; Rapallini, Chiara; Rustichini, Aldo - 2021
Academic consensus about normative prescriptions on the ethnic and cultural composition of societies has been shifting in recent decades. It has evolved from what seemed desirable but was acknowledged to be unrealistic (the noble idea of a melting pot), to what is realistic because it has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603413
Cover Image
School friendship networks, homophily and multiculturalism : evidence from European countries
Campigotto, Nicola; Rapallini, Chiara; Rustichini, Aldo - 2020
This paper investigates the determinants of school friendship networks among adolescents, proposing a model of network formation and estimating it using a sample (CILS4EU) of about 10,000 secondary school students in four countries: England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. We test the idea...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306145
Cover Image
Network abroad and culture : global individual-level evidence
Turati, Riccardo - 2024
This paper analyzes whether natives with a network abroad have a distinctive cultural stance compared to similar individuals without such connections within the same region. Using individual-level data on connectedness from the Gallup World Poll across 2,256 within-country regions over 148...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015071997
Cover Image
Neo-humanism and COVID-19 : opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021 - Version: 20 April 2021
A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012505150
Cover Image
When reality bites : local deaths and vaccine take-up
Giulie i, Corrado; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2021
In this study, we investigate whether COVID-19 deaths that occurred before vaccination rollouts impact subsequent vaccination take-up. We use data on local vaccination rates and COVID-19-related deaths from England measured at high geographic granularity. We nd that vaccination take-up as of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703251