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Tempering the taste for vengeance : information about prisoners and policy choices in Chile
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Cafferata, Fernando G.; … - 2020
public. In this paper, we employ a survey experiment conducted in Chile in order to examine how the provision of information … information about the low educational attainment of prisoners. This information led to substantial changes in policy preferences … they reduced their support for “iron fist” policing. This indicates that providing information to citizens might change the …
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Transparency and trust in government : evidence from a survey experiment
Alessandro, Martin; Lagomarsino, Bruno Cardinale; … - 2019
Does providing information improve citizens' perception about government transparency? Does all information matter the … randomized survey experiment conducted in Argentina. Results show that providing information to citizens matters for shaping … perceptions about transparency, and the content of the information matters for affecting the evaluation people make about the …
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The effect of antimalarial campaigns on child mortality and fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Wilde, Joshua; Apouey, Bénédicte H.; Coleman, Joseph; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234680
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Increasing anti-malaria bednet uptake using information and distribution strategies : evidence from a randomized experiment in Senegal
Bonan, Jacopo; LeMay-Boucher, Philippe; Tenikue, Michel - 2016
malaria-related issues and of different sale treatments. We find that overall information has no significant effect on the …-Treated Nets (LL-ITN). Using a randomized controlled trial in urban Senegal, we look at the impacts of receiving information on … malaria. Receiving an offer to purchase an LL-ITN with a voucher valid for 7 days increases purchases by 23 percentage points …
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The decline of home cooked food
Griffith, Rachel; Jin, Wenchao; Lechene, Valérie - 2021
The share of home-cooked food in the diet of UK households declined from the 1980s. This was contemporaneous with a decline in the market price of ingredients for home cooking relative to ready-to-eat foods. We consider a simple model of food consumption and time use which captures the key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583535
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The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate; Stroud, Rebekah - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant changes in where people work, eat and socialise. We use novel data on the food and non-alcoholic drink purchases from stores, takeaways, restaurants and other outlets to quantify the impact of the pandemic on the diets of a large, representative panel...
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Foundations of ambiguity models under symmetry : α-MEU and smooth ambiguity
Klibanoff, Peter; Mukerji, Sujoy; Seo, Kyoungwon; … - 2021 - This Version: January 13, 2021
The α-MEU model and the smooth ambiguity model are two popular models in decision making under ambiguity. However, the axiomatic foundations of these two models are not completely understood. We provide axiomatic foundations of these models in a symmetric setting with a product state space...
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Symmetry axioms and perceived ambiguity
Klibanoff, Peter; Mukerji, Sujoy; Seo, Kyoungwon - 2017
Since at least de Finetti [7], preference symmetry assumptions have played an important role in models of decision making under uncertainty. In the current paper, we explore (1) the relationship between the symmetry assumption of Klibanoff, Mukerji and Seo (KMS) [21] and alternative symmetry...
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Media coverage and pandemic behaviour : evidence from Sweden
Garz, Marcel; Zhuang, Maiting - 2022
We study the effect of media coverage on individual behaviour during a public health crisis. For this purpose, we collect a unique dataset of 200,000 newspaper articles about the Covid-19 pandemic from Sweden - one of the few countries that did not impose mandatory lockdowns or curfews. We show...
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Civic engagement in the Americas
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2018
This paper estimates the effect of voting eligibility on civic engagement measured along three dimensions: political motivation, political activities, and political knowledge. These outcomes originate in the AmericasBarometer 2004-2016 surveys of eligible voters. To identify the effects the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882059