How racial animus forms and spreads: Evidence from the coronavirus pandemic [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的种族偏见形成与传播：证据来源
Runjing Lu,Sophie Yanying Sheng
Runjing Lu
This paper studies the formation and the spread of crisis-driven racial animus during the coronavirus pandemic. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the timing of the first COVID-19 diagnosis across US areas, we find that the first l...
Angelo Antoci,Fabio Sabatini,Pier Luigi Sacco et al.
Angelo Antoci et al.
We build an evolutionary game-theoretic model of the interaction between policymakers and experts in shaping the policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Players' decisions concern two alternative strategies of pandemic management: a "hard...
Nursing home aversion post-pandemic: Implications for savings and long-term care policy [0.03%]
疫情后的养老院回避：对储蓄和长期护理政策的影响
Bertrand Achou,Philippe De Donder,Franca Glenzer et al.
Bertrand Achou et al.
COVID-19 outbreaks at nursing homes during the recent pandemic have received ample media coverage and may have lasting negative impacts on individuals' perception of nursing homes. We argue that this could have sizable and persistent implic...
Voting, contagion and the trade-off between public health and political rights: Quasi-experimental evidence from the Italian 2020 polls [0.03%]
投票、传染和在公共卫生与政治权利之间的权衡：来自2020年意大利选举的准实验证据
Marco Mello,Giuseppe Moscelli
Marco Mello
Natural disasters raise challenging trade-offs between public health safety and inalienable rights like the active involvement in political choices through voting. We exploit a quasi-experimental setting provided by multiple ballots across ...
Has the COVID-19 pandemic affected public trust? Evidence for the US and the Netherlands [0.03%]
新冠疫情会降低民众的信任水平吗？来自美国和荷兰的证据
Carin van der Cruijsen,Jakob de Haan,Nicole Jonker
Carin van der Cruijsen
Using two large-scale surveys among households, we examine the drivers of public trust in banks, insurance companies, BigTechs, and other people in the United States and the Netherlands, and analyse whether the COVID-19 pandemic has affecte...
Alex Rees-Jones,John D&#x;Attoma,Amedeo Piolatto et al.
Alex Rees-Jones et al.
Did individuals' experiences with the harms of the COVID-19 pandemic influence their attitudes towards safety-net programs? To assess this question, we combine rich information about county-level impacts and individual-level perceptions of ...
Save lives or save livelihoods? A cross-country analysis of COVID-19 pandemic and economic growth [0.03%]
拯救生命还是维持生计？对新冠疫情与经济增长的跨国分析
Qu Feng,Guiying Laura Wu,Mengying Yuan et al.
Qu Feng et al.
This paper studies whether containing COVID-19 pandemic by stringent strategies deteriorates or saves economic growth. Since there are country-specific factors that could affect both economic growth and deaths due to COVID-19, we first star...
Joscha Beckmann,Robert L Czudaj
Joscha Beckmann
This study analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on exchange rates based on a comprehensive set of survey forecasts for more than 50 currency pairs. At the first stage, we assess whether the policy to manage the COVID-19 pandemic aff...
Xiaoyang Ye,Muxin Zhai,Li Feng et al.
Xiaoyang Ye et al.
This research examines the intention of undergraduate medical students to withdraw from the medical profession and pursue a career in a different field upon graduation during COVID-19. We leverage the first and most comprehensive nationwide...
Lukas Buchheim,Jonas Dovern,Carla Krolage et al.
Lukas Buchheim et al.
How did optimism or pessimism about the duration of shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic affect firms' business outlook and behavior? In a large panel of German firms, we identify sentiment as the only plausible determinant of the cross-s...