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Justifying Dissent
Bursztyn, Leonardo; Egorov, Georgij V.; Haaland, Ingar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Dissent plays an important role in any society, but dissenters are often silenced through social sanctions. Beyond their persuasive effects, rationales providing arguments supporting dissenters' causes can increase the public expression of dissent by providing a "social cover" for voicing...
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Justifying dissent
Bursztyn, Leonardo; Egorov, Georgij V.; Haaland, Ingar; … - 2022
Dissent plays an important role in any society, but dissenters are often silenced through social sanctions. Beyond their persuasive effects, rationales providing arguments supporting dissenters' causes can increase the public expression of dissent by providing a "social cover" for voicing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818404
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Justifying dissent
Bursztyn, Leonardo; Egorov, Georgij V.; Haaland, Ingar; … - In: The quarterly journal of economics 138 (2023) 3, pp. 1403-1451
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Justifying dissent
Bursztyn, Leonardo; Haaland, Ingar; Egorov, Georgij V.; … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013258881
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The politicized pandemic : ideological polarization and the behavioral response to COVID-19
Grimalda, Gianluca; Murtin, Fabrice; Pipke, David; … - 2022
We investigate the relationship between political attitudes and prosociality in a survey of a representative sample of the U.S. population during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that an experimental measure of prosociality correlates positively with adherence to protective...
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Immigration, political ideologies and the polarization of American politics
Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah; Matzat, Johannes; Mayda, … - 2020
We study the extent to which migrant inflows to the United States affect the political polarization of campaign donors … polarization measures based on ideology data derived from 16 million campaign finance contributors, our results show that migrant … inflows causally increase the polarization of both campaign donations and leading political candidates. Our estimates hold …
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The virus, vaccination, and voting
Frankel, Jeffrey A.; Kotti, Randy - 2021
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The Virus, Vaccination, and Voting
Frankel, Jeffrey A.; Kotti, Randy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Vaccination rates have a statistically significant downward effect on the Covid-19 death rate across US counties, as of August 12, 2021. Controlling for poverty rates, age, and temperature lowers the magnitude of the estimate a little. Using the Biden-Trump vote in the 2020 election as an...
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Biden, COVID and Mental Health in America
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
health of nearly 2.3 million Americans during the COVID pandemic. We find anxiety, depression and worry peaked in November … 2020, coinciding with the Presidential election. The taking of prescription drugs for mental health conditions peaked two … weeks later in December 2020. Mental health improved subsequently such that by April 2021 it was better than it had been a …
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The Political Economy of Responses to COVID-19 in the U.S.A.
Cui, Zhihan; Heal, Geoffrey; Kunreuther, Howard; Liu, Lu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
choices of both types of policies are influenced more by political than public health considerations …
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