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Politicizing the Mask: Political, Economic and Demographic Factors Affecting Mask Wearing Behavior in the USA

Anti-Mask League protests, “might be cloaking deeper ideological or political divides.” In other words, opposition to mask wearing during the Great Influenza Pandemic may have reflected both a disbelief ... accelerated under Donald Trump’s presidency. Bordalo et al. (2020 ) notes that when the division between Democrats and Republicans grows this typically leads to greater political engagement (e.g., voting

The Impact of Sporting and Cultural Events in a Heterogeneous Hotel Market: Evidence from Austin, TX

This paper provides an empirical analysis of how various local political, cultural, and sporting events affect daily room rentals in the Austin, Texas hotel market. In an innovation of previous ... provide little evidence of intertemporal spillover benefits for most events studied. Similarly, Heller et al. (2018 ) use daily hotel occupancy data to analyze the four national political party

Code as personal data: implications for data protection law and regulation of algorithms

related phenomena: the act of molding the mind and communicating knowledge.79 The arrival of computing has turbocharged efforts to conceptualize information. By now many disciplines as diverse as philosophy

Assessing the Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Emerging Market Economies’ (EMEs) Sovereign Bond Risk Premium and Fiscal Solvency

growth and political stability indicators. In addition, we find the real exchange rate and net export to GDP ratio have a statistically significant impact on sovereign bond risk premium. ... higher fiscal deficit to GDP ratio also experience higher sovereign risk premiums during Covid-19. Moreover, we find that political stability indicators and the great financial crisis of 2008-2009 have a

It is time to recognize the tort of invasion of privacy in Malaysia

elected member of parliament or a member of a political party to serve as a member of a Malaysian Bar Council or any of its committees.40 The court was asked to decide if personal liberty under Article 5(1 ... incorporate guidelines and references from international documents, such as the ECHR and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,93 to help draft the legislation.94 The establishment or

Using a Trans-theoretical Approach to Identify Differences in Determinants of Anxiety and Depression Symptoms and Mental Wellbeing Between Two Age Groups

by CAUL and its Member Institutions. This study was conducted as part of Olivia Fisher’s Doctorate of Philosophy degree and was supported by Queensland University of Technology through the Higher

Social Disparities and Social Distancing During the Covid Pandemic

are significantly and negatively related to social distancing. This result is robust to the inclusion of a wide variety of economic, social and demographic and political controls, as well as to controls ... vector of one or more of the social disparity measures, Xc is a vector of timeinvariant, county-level socioeconomic, demographic and political controls described above, and s is a vector of state and

Starting University at the Time of COVID-19: Psychoemotional Adjustment of a Group of Italian Students

 Lampis 0 Stefania Cataudella 0 0 Department of Pedagogy , Psychology, Philosophy , University of Cagliari , Cagliari , Italy 1 Alessandra Busonera The transition from school to university typically occurs ... participants, and the study procedure received the approval of the Ethics Committee of the Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, and Philosophy of the University of Cagliari (26/27–06-17). Measures

Expanding the Self Behind Closed Doors: Exploring the Role of the Lockdown in Self-Realization Among Young Adults

roots in ancient philosophy and holds importance even in the modern management sciences. As the classic statements given by Plato and Aristotle on the concept exemplify, it is only through self ... backdrop of happiness and well-being. Happiness in the eudaimonic tradition is particularly emphasized in the philosophy of Aristotle who defines it as self-realization, which is realizing one’s true self

Introduction to the Symposium on Teaching Economics: Innovations in Times of Uncertainty

economic analysis to real-world examples, enhances their research and communication skills while broadening their cultural horizons. Students gather data on the economic, political, and cultural institutions ... political and economic context. The hands-on experiment helps demonstrate important implications for rent-seeking on efficiency and equity. In the second by James Staveley-O’Carroll (Babson College), students

How to Age More Positively? Analyzing Determinants that Shape Attitudes Towards Aging

quality of contact with older people) that could be changed and therefore promoted by socio-political interventions. The model was tested in a wide sample of the Italian population with a varied age range ... with their grandparents hold more conspicuous political support for policies that are geared toward the enhancement of life of older adults (Silverstein & Parrott, 1997) . As far as gender, it is well

“Every Day has Enough of Its Own Torment”—A Narrative Study of Life’s Greatest Challenge Among Men in Late Adulthood

. , & Poulin , M. J. ( 2009 ). The political is personal: Narrating 9/11 and psychological well-being . Journal of Personality , 77 , 903 - 932 . https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467- 6494 . 2009 . 00569 .x Adler , J

Currency Devaluation as a Source of Growth in Africa: A Synthetic Control Approach

with political leaders in France and the nations in the CFA-franc zone to solidify the political will to realign the currency.4 The IMF also began to draw up plans for structural reform supported by IMF ... to alleviation in poverty in these countries. The sustained growth across all CFA countries began to diverge after 1997, due in large part to social and political unrest. Ultimately, early studies

Being Called “Elderly” Impacts Adult Development: A Critical Analysis of Enduring Ageism During COVID in NZ Online News Media

) , media and communications (Ayalon et al., 2020; Sedick & Roost, 2011; Xi et al., 2020) , political science (Zhuravskaya et al., 2020) , and health and wellbeing (Avers et al., 2011; Jiao & Chang, 2020 ... related to national and political conversations occurring around dementia care and aging populations. Usage fluctuated across four over-riding story topic areas (housing, transport, health, finances) in a

Are We Floating Yet? Duration of Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes

peg (e.g. Aghion et al. 2001; Mishkin 1999; McKinnon and Pill 1998) . Political and institutional quality play a significant role in the choice of exchange rate regimes (e.g. Alesina and Wagner 2006 ... ; Broz and Frieden 2006) . As such we include an index of political rights from the Polity IV (2014) dataset, Polity 2, where a higher number represents a more democratic country to account for the impact

Do Governors Lead or Follow? Timing of Stay-at-Home Orders

searching, then governors are more likely to be leaders. The question connects to the fundamental divergence of political competition as being either one of Downs (1957) or Citizen Candidates (Osborne and ... Slivinski 1996; Besley and Coate 1997) . In the former, politicians do not express personal preferences but simply announce and take on the policies preferred by voters. Political competition can be expected

Education in Mathematics and the Spread of COVID-19

COVID-19 cases. While not a causal result, one interpretation of this result would suggest that while education in mathematics is important, political affiliation and the ability to synthesize information ... that came from political leaders were also factors in slowing the spread of COVID-19. These findings suggest that if states and localities place a greater emphasis on education in mathematics, it may

Financial Problems in Established Adulthood: Implications for Depressive Symptoms and Relationship Quality with Parents

Consortium for Political and Social Research (https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/NACDA/studi es/36360; https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/NACDA/studies/37317). Code Availability Available upon request. Declarations ... . ( 2008 ). Family Exchanges Study Wave 1 , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2008 . Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2016 - 04 -14. https://doi.org/ 10.3886/ICPSR36360

A Flipped Classroom Experiment in Growth Theory

amenable” to modeling (Mankiw 2019) . This requires some insights into the role of institutions, culture, geography, and political factors in the dynamics of the proximate causes of growth. Students that

Teaching Environmental Macroeconomics to Undergraduate Students

. Aguiar , M. , and G. Gopinath . 2007 . Emerging market business cycles: The cycle is the trend . Journal of Political Economy 115 ( 1 ): 69 - 102 . Balaban , R.A. , D.B. Gilleskie , and U. Tran . 2016 . A