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Face masks increase compliance with physical distancing recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic
Seres, Gyula; Balleyer, Anna Helen; Cerutti, Nicola; … - 2020
Governments across the world have implemented restrictive policies to slow the spread of COVID-19. Recommended face mask use has been a controversially discussed policy, among others, due to potential adverse effects on physical distancing. Using a randomized field experiment (N=300), we show...
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Spreading the disease : protest in times of pandemics
Lange, Martin; Monscheuer, Ole - 2021
This study analyzes the impact of COVID-19 deniers on the spread of COVID-19 in Germany. In a first step, we establish a link between regional proxies of COVID-19 deniers and infection rates. We then estimate the causal impact of large anti-lockdown protests on the spread of COVID-19 using an...
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Evaluating the effectiveness of policies against a pandemic
Alemán, Christian; Busch, Christopher; Ludwig, Alexander; … - 2020
approach is the insight that epidemic dynamics are best tracked over stages, rather than over time. We use a normalization … procedure that makes the pre-policy paths of the epidemic identical across regions. The procedure uncovers regional variation in … the stage of the epidemic at the time of policy implementation. This variation delivers clean identification of the policy …
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Trust issues? : how being socialised in an autocracy shapes vaccine uptake
Boese, Vanessa Alexandra; Bayerlein, Michael; Gates, Scott - 2023 - This version: October 24, 2023
vaccination hesitancy varies between countries. Instead of focusing solely on government trust and satisfaction, this research … highly specific form of scepticism towards government action. …
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Isolating the incapacitative effect of social distancing on crime : evidence from Ecuador's Covid-19 lockdown
Mahe, Clotilde; Parra-Cely, Sergio - 2020
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Optimal lockdown and vaccination policies to contain the spread of a mutating infectious disease
Prieur, Fabien; Ruan, Weihua; Zou, Benteng - 2022
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Sleep quality and the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in five European countries
Jabakhanji, Samira; Lepinteur, Anthony; Menta, Giorgia; … - 2022 - This version: September 2022
negative attitudes toward COVID-19 and its management (lower degree of confidence in government, greater fear of being infected …
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Social media and mental health
Braghieri, Luca; Levy, Ro'ee; Makarin, Alexey - 2022
The diffusion of social media coincided with a worsening of mental health conditions among adolescents and young adults in the United States, giving rise to speculation that social media might be detrimental to mental health. In this paper, we provide the first quasi-experimental estimates of...
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The gatekeeper's dilemma : political selection or team effort
Fiva, Jon H.; Izzo, Federica; Tukiainen, Janne - 2024
Political parties play a crucial gatekeeping role in elections, including controlling electoral resources, candidate recruitment, and electoral list compositions. In making these strategic choices, parties aim to encourage candidates to invest in the campaign, while also trying to secure...
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Personality traits and cognitive ability in political selection
Jokela, Markus; Meriläinen, Jaakko; Tukiainen, Janne; … - 2022
electoral candidates and election of politicians. Using unique data that combine population registers and election statistics … from local government elections in Finland with tests of cognitive and non-cognitive ability of men administered by the … dimensions of non-cognitive ability. Second, elected politicians possess more desirable traits than nonelected candidates. Our …
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