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The Distribution of COVID-19 Related Risks
Baylis, Patrick - 2020
This paper documents two COVID-related risks, viral risk and employment risk, and their distributions across the … Canadian population. The measurement of viral risk is based on the VSE COVID Risk/Reward Assessment Tool, created to assist … women are more concentrated in high viral risk occupations and that this is the source of their greater employment loss over …
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To Go Electric or To Burn Coal? A Randomized Field Experiment of Informational Nudges
Fang, Hanming; Li, King King; Shen, Peiyao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Coal heating in residential homes is an important source of indoor air pollution, leading to detrimental health effects. We conduct a randomized field experiment in northern China using three types of SMS campaigns targeting three potential biases that may hinder the adoption of electric...
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A Cognitive View of Policing
Dube, Oeindrila; MacArthur, Sandy Jo; Shah, Anuj K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
What causes adverse policing outcomes, such as excessive uses of force and unnecessary arrests? Prevailing explanations focus on problematic officers or deficient regulations and oversight. Here, we introduce a new, overlooked perspective. We suggest that the cognitive demands inherent in...
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Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Misinformation : Evidence from a Demand Side Field Experiment on Critical Thinking
List, John A.; Ramírez, Lina M.; Seither, Julia; Unda, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Misinformation represents a vital threat to the societal fabric of modern economies. While the supply side of the misinformation market has begun to receive increased scrutiny, the demand side has received scant attention. We explore the demand for misinformation through the lens of augmenting...
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Epidemiological Expectations
Carroll, Chris; Wang, Tao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
'Epidemiological' models of belief formation put social interactions at their core; such models are widely used by scholars who are not economists to study the dynamics of beliefs in populations. We survey the literature in which economists attempting to model the consequences of beliefs about...
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Willingness to Accept, Willingness to Pay, and Loss Aversion
Chapman, Jonathan; Dean, Mark; Ortoleva, Pietro; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
, but are, at best, weakly correlated. Third, WTA and WTP strongly relate to other aspects of risk preferences. The …
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Long social distancing
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2022
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Leaders in Social Movements : Evidence From Unions in Myanmar
Boudreau, Laura; Macchiavello, Rocco; Minni, Virginia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Social movements are catalysts for crucial institutional changes. To succeed, they must coordinate members' views (consensus building) and actions (mobilization). We study union leaders within Myanmar's burgeoning labor movement. Union leaders are positively selected on both personality traits...
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The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination : Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials
Ho, Lisa Y.; Breza, Emily; Alsan, Marcella; Banerjee, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in wealthy countries, yet many people remain unvaccinated. Understanding the effectiveness -- or lack thereof -- of popular vaccination campaign strategies is therefore critical. In this paper, we report results from two studies that tested strategies...
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COVID-19 Time-varying Reproduction Numbers Worldwide : An Empirical Analysis of Mandatory and Voluntary Social Distancing
Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Rebucci, Alessandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper estimates time-varying COVID-19 reproduction numbers worldwide solely based on the number of reported infected cases, allowing for under-reporting. Estimation is based on a moment condition that can be derived from an agent-based stochastic network model of COVID-19 transmission. The...
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