Janna Wisniewski,Brigham Walker,Sarah Tinkler et al.
Janna Wisniewski et al.
We examine how differences in questions asked and information provided by physicians' offices contribute to differences in new-patient appointment offers. Data is from a 2013-16 field experiment involving calls to a random sample of US prim...
Nursing facilities, food manufacturing plants and COVID-19 cases and deaths [0.03%]
与COVID-19病例和死亡情况有关的护理设施和食品制造工厂
Twisha Asher,Partha Deb,Anjelica Gangaram
Twisha Asher
News outlets pointed to meatpacking plants and nursing homes as viral hotspots during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. In contrast to news reports, we find that retirement communities and assisted living facilities were as...
Efficacy or delivery? An online Discrete Choice Experiment to explore preferences for COVID-19 vaccines in the UK [0.03%]
效力还是可及性？一项关于英国新冠疫苗偏好的在线离散选择实验
Robert McPhedran,Ben Toombs
Robert McPhedran
COVID-19 vaccines are widely regarded as an integral component in the UK's pandemic recovery, and a comprehensive distribution strategy will be required to maximise uptake. However, to date, there is a dearth of research into factors that c...
Christopher R Bollinger,Martijn van Hasselt
Christopher R Bollinger
Accurate estimates of the cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection remain elusive. Among the reasons for this are that tests for the virus are not randomly administered, and that the most commonly used tests can yield a substantial frac...
Massimiliano Ferraresi,Christos Kotsogiannis,Leonzio Rizzo et al.
Massimiliano Ferraresi et al.
Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, countries on the same pandemic trajectory have adopted very different lockdown strategies. Using data for over 132 countries, and employing an event-study design, this paper identifies the role of pol...
Muhammad Usman,Muzhar Javed,Junming Yin
Muhammad Usman
Amid the rapid transition towards a low-carbon world, this study resolves how a nationally-diverse board affects a firm's inclination towards green innovation. Using eleven years (2005-2015) data of all A-share manufacturing companies liste...
Yossef Tobol,Erez Siniver,Gideon Yaniv
Yossef Tobol
In an attempt to slow down the spread of the coronavirus, an increasing number of countries, including Israel, have made wearing masks mandatory for their citizens not just in close public places but also while waking in the streets. Failin...
Mere Addition is equivalent to avoiding the Sadistic Conclusion in all plausible variable-population social orderings [0.03%]
纯粹的增加等同于在所有合理的变人口社会排序中避免残酷的结论
Nathan Franz,Dean Spears
Nathan Franz
Economic policy evaluations require social welfare functions for variable-size populations. Two important axioms in the population ethics literature are Mere Addition and avoidance of the Sadistic Conclusion, both of which focus on the sign...
Douglas Almond,Xinming Du
Douglas Almond
Technology and social media use are increasingly associated with delays in nightly sleep. Here, we consider the timing of President Trump's official Twitter account posts as a proxy for sleep duration and how it relates to his public perfor...
The effects of COVID-19 lockdown on fairness and cooperation: Evidence from a lablike experiment [0.03%]
COVID-19封锁对公平和合作的影响：来自类似实验室实验的证据
Irene Maria Buso,Sofia De Caprariis,Daniela Di Cagno et al.
Irene Maria Buso et al.
We run an experiment to study the effects of Covid-19 lockdown in Italy on preferences for fairness and cooperation. Given the impossibility of having participants in the lab during the lockdown, we adopted an online methodology based on a ...