election relative to an analogous impact for men who closely win or lose a state legislature election. We find that the effect …

We document that trust in public institutions ﾖ and particularly trust in banks, business and government ﾖ has declined … the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …

expose different areas of the polity to controlled informational treatments about the valence and ideology of the incumbent … elicited beliefs, we are able to structurally assess the relative weights voters place upon a candidate's valence and ideology … only campaigning on valence brings more votes to the incumbent. With respect to ideology, cross-learning occurs, as voters …

to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …

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 … between liberals and conservatives are up to 4.4 times smaller in their behavior than in judging the government's crisis …