ArticleJournal of financial economics2021
Risk perceptions and politics: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Drivers of health polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review.Science advances · 2025Pooled it
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- Systematic literature review of postponed elections during COVID-19: Campaigns, regulations, and budgets.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Polarized Perceptions: How Time and Vaccination Status Modify Republican and Democratic COVID-19 Risk Perceptions.Journal of elections, public opinion and parties · 2024Article
- Risk perceptions and behaviors concerning rural tourism and economic-political drivers of COVID-19 policy in 2020.PloS one · 2024Article
- Risk perception of compound emergencies: A household survey on flood evacuation and sheltering behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic.Sustainable cities and society · 2023Article
- The Role of Political Belief in COVID-19 Vaccine Resistance, Virus Transmission, and Closure Policy Response.Vaccines · 2023Article
- Trust, social protection, and compliance: Moral hazard in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of economic behavior & organization · 2023Article
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- A tale of two pandemics: The enduring partisan differences in actions, attitudes, and beliefs during the coronavirus pandemic.PloS one · 2023Article
- JUE Insight: Urban flight seeded the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States.Journal of urban economics · 2023Article
- American election results at the precinct level.Scientific data · 2022Article
- Examining the Influence of Housing Conditions and Daily Greenspace Exposure on People's Perceived COVID-19 Risk and Distress.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Risk perception, but also political orientation, modulate behavioral response to COVID-19: A randomized survey experiment.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Politics may color interpretations of facts, and thus perceptions of risk. We find that a higher share of Trump voters in a county is associated with lower perceptions of risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. Controlling for COVID-19 case counts and deaths, as Trump's vote share rises in the local area, individuals search less for information on the virus and its potential economic impacts, and engage in fewer visits to non-essential businesses. Our results suggest that politics and the media may play an important role in determining the formation of risk perceptions, and may therefore affect both economic and health-related reactions to unanticipated health crises.
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