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Risk avoidance, offsetting community effects, and COVID-19: Evidence from an indoor political rally

treatment CBGs by 22.4 percent and the number of 4 Attendees of the rally were also drawn from a part of the political distribution that have been found to be less responsive to public health policies aimed ... in the host metro area by 14.5 percent. These studies suggest that it is reasonable to expect a similar effect from the political rally: several weeks later there would be several hundred additional

Political polarization in US residents’ COVID-19 risk perceptions, policy preferences, and protective behaviors

When the novel coronavirus entered the US, most US states implemented lockdown measures. In April–May 2020, state governments started political discussions about whether it would be worth the risk to ... whether it would be worth the risk to reduce protective measures. In a highly politicized environment, risk perceptions and preferences for risk mitigation may vary by political inclinations. In April-May

Improving access to care for rheumatology services in Canada

policy challenges in biosimilar uptake and associated ethical and political considerations. By using a health policy lens to explore deficiencies within Canada’s current system, the overarching goal of ... -streams theory, there are three types of streams (problem, policy, and political) that can influence public policy agenda setting [ 13 ]. One independent problem stream lies in the ageing population

Health disparities in systemic lupus erythematosus—a narrative review

clinical trials further worsen these disparities. Efforts have been made recently to address disparities in a more comprehensive manner, but systemic causes of disparities must be acknowledged and political

Quantifying loss aversion: Evidence from a UK population survey

, emotional state, newspaper and political party. However, once we condition on all the profiling characteristics of the respondents, some factors, in particular gender, cease to be significant, suggesting that ... inappropriate. Our data set is for a representative sample of the UK adult population and contains a large number of variables describing the economic, social, political and personal characteristics of the

Delegated risk-taking, accountability, and outcome bias

), 901 - 913 . Chevalier , J. , & Ellison , G. ( 1997 ). Risk taking by mutual funds as a response to incentives . Journal of Political Economy , 105 ( 6 ), 1167 - 1200 . De Oliveira , A. C. M. , Smith , A ... of Political Economy , 121 ( 6 ), 1205 - 1247 . Heider , F. ( 1958 ). The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations . Wiley. Hershey , J. C. , & Baron , J. ( 1992 ). Judgment by outcomes: When is it

“Injury risk, concussions, race, and pay in the NFL”

career length . The Review of Black Political Economy , 42 , 285 - 299 . Ducking , J. , Groothuis , P. A. , & Hill , J. R. ( 2017 ). Compensation discrimination: An analysis of linebackers, defensive ... linemen, and defensive backs in the National Football League . The Review of Black Political Economy , 44 , 251 - 260 . Efron , B. ( 1977 ). The efficiency of Cox's likelihood function for censored data

Sociocultural and moral narratives influencing the decision to vaccinate among rheumatic disease patients: a qualitative study

, political factors, and personal characteristics like endorsement of conspiracy theories [ 11, 12 ]. In Latin America, high intent to receive a COVID-19 vaccine contradicts high degrees of fear towards side ... . Contrastingly, when asked about their overall opinions of the vaccination campaign and the pandemic response generally, patients express more negative opinions, given a perceived influence of political interests

How risky is distracted driving?

significant risk to individuals on the road. The fact that many states outlaw certain distractions, such as holding cell phones, suggests many policymakers believe the political, economic, and societal cost of ... /10.2202/1935- 1682 . 2004 Levitt , S. D. , & Porter , J. ( 2001 ). How dangerous are drinking drivers ? Journal of Political Economy , 109 , 1198 - 1237 . Loughran , D. S. , & Seabury , S. A. ( 2007

Seen and not seen: How people judge ambiguous behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic

household, highest level of education, political affiliation, and employment status. 2.3 Experimental manipulation and dependent measures The second and third parts (where participants were asked about ... disparaging. Finally, these effects are robust to demographic factors (e.g., gender, age, political affiliation), that is, participants judged others’ behavior significantly more generously in the “no

The predictive power of risk elicitation tasks

. Gillen , B. , Snowberg , E. , & Yariv , L. ( 2019 ). Experimenting with measurement error: Techniques with applications to the Caltech cohort study . Journal of Political Economy , 127 , 1826 - 1863 ... ability in individual decision-making . Journal of Economic Psychology , 58 , 44 - 59 . Halevy , Y. , Persitz , D. , & Zrill , L. ( 2018 ). Parametric recoverability of preferences . Journal of Political

The limits of reopening policy to alter economic behavior: New evidence from Texas

Texas reopening increased new COVID-19 cases. results persist when we explore heterogeneity in the state reopening by urbanicity and political ideology of Texas counties.9 We find no evidence of social ... political inclinations (see for instance, de Bruin et al., 2020). 10 However, 85 of Texas’ 254 counties had enacted their own county-level SIPOs prior to the statewide order, covering almost two-thirds of the

Fatalism, beliefs, and behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic

that has contracted Coronavirus? (1) Yes (2) No Q13. Do you personally know someone who has become unemployed because of how the Coronavirus has affected the economy? Q14. Which political party do your ... views most align with? (1) Conservative (2) Labour (3) Liberal Democrats (4) Other (please specify) (5) No political party Q15. Do you use any of the following news sources (online or in person) on a

Perceptions of personal and public risk: Dissociable effects on behavior and well-being

their age, gender, ethnicity, level of education, household income, health insurance satisfaction, political orientation, whether they had children and their current place of residence. In compliance with ... , gender, ethnicity, household income, healthcare insurance satisfaction, political orientation, level of education, children, state restrictions). The same logistic regression models were run again with

Strength of preference and decisions under risk

received no support from parties with financial, ideological, or political stakes related to the article. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ... regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Agranov , M. , & Ortoleva , P. ( 2017 ). Stochastic Choice and Preferences for Randomization . Journal of Political

Learning your own risk preferences

, B. , Snowberg , E. , & Yariv , L. ( 2018 ). Experimenting with measurement error: Techniques with applications to the Caltech cohort study . Journal of Political Economy , 127 ( 4 ), 1826 - 1863

Ambiguity aversion and the degree of ambiguity

. , & Brownson , F. O. ( 1964 ). What price ambiguity? Or the role of ambiguity in decision-making . Journal of Political Economy , 72 ( 1 ), 62 - 73 . Berger , J. O. ( 2013 ). Statistical decision theory and

José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta (1966–2020)

passion for science, energetic personality and collaborative philosophy, which he incorporated into a unique way of doing research. Over the course of his career, he published 117 scientific articles with

Individual characteristics associated with risk and time preferences: A multi country representative survey

case of risk and time preferences . Journal of Political Economy , 126 , 74 - 106 . Aycinena , D. , Baltaduonis , R. , & Rentschler , L. ( 2014 ). Risk preferences and prenatal exposure to sex hormones ... measurement error: Techniques with applications to the caltech cohort study . Journal of Political Economy , 127 , 1826 - 1863 . Gloede , O. , Menkhoff , L. , & Waibel , H. ( 2015 ). Shocks, individual risk

Biased survival expectations and behaviours: Does domain specific information matter?

0 Department of Health Policy and AHIL, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), IZA and CESIfo , Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE , UK 1 Universidad de Murcia , Murcia , Spain We ... social club, taken part in political community activities, as well as event organised by religious organization, attended educational or training courses, and 0 otherwise (see Table A3 for definitions