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support for future policies. The two-way relationship between prevention policy and awareness generates two stable steady …-state equilibria: high awareness/slow prevalence and low awareness/high prevalence. The low-prevalence equilibrium is fragile: the … framework extends naturally to a large class of public health policies under which awareness partly follows from the policies …
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campaigns raise awareness of the current generation, which then partially transmit this awareness to the next generation, thus … creating political support for the next-period awareness campaigns. The economy has two steady-state equilibria: the "good" one … (with high awareness and low prevalence) and the "bad" one (low awareness, high prevalence). The "good" equilibrium is …
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We exploit a quasi-experimental setting provided by an election day with multiple polls to estimate the effect of voters' turnout on the spread of new COVID-19 infections and to quantify the policy trade-off implied by postponing elections during high infection periods. We show that post-poll...
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We exploit a quasi-experimental setting provided by an election day with multiple polls to estimate the effect of voters' turnout on the spread of new COVID-19 infections and to quantify the policy trade-off implied by postponing elections during high infection periods. We show that post-poll...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658237
This paper analyzes the political support for a public insurance in the presence of a private insurance alternative. The public insurance is compulsory and offers a uniform insurance policy. The private insurance is voluntary and can offer different insurance policies to different individual...
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majority voting. Individuals vote according to their misperceived utility function. Consequently, excessive fat consumption is …
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majority voting. Individuals vote according to their misperceived utility function. Consequently, excessive fat consumption is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388188
voting decisions in public referenda. To this end, we provide the first quantitative review of the literature and a case …
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voting decisions in public referenda. To this end, we provide the first quantitative review of the literature and a case …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451394
voting decisions in public referenda. To this end, we provide the first quantitative review of the literature and a case …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428873