ArticleJournal of economic behavior & organization2023
Anti-social behaviour and economic decision-making: Panel experimental evidence in the wake of COVID-19.
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- Risk, time preferences, trustworthiness and COVID-19 preventive behavior: evidence from France.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2024Article
- Too much focus on your health might be bad for your health: Reddit user's communication style predicts their Long COVID likelihood.PloS one · 2024Article
- The Neural Response Process of Cognitive Decision Making: An ERP Study.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Does the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown affect risk attitudes?-Evidence from rural Thailand.PloS one · 2023Article
- On the stability of risk and time preferences amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Experimental economics · 2022Article
- How the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic impacted pro-social behaviour and individual preferences: Experimental evidence from China.Journal of economic behavior & organization · 2021Article
- Stability of Risk Preferences During COVID-19: Evidence From Four Measurements.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Long Term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Social Concerns.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Heterogeneity in Risk-Taking During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From the UK Lockdown.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
We systematically examine the acute impact of exposure to a public health crisis on anti-social behaviour and economic decision-making using unique experimental panel data from China, collected just before the outbreak of COVID-19 and immediately after the first wave was overcome. Exploiting plausibly exogenous geographical variation in virus exposure coupled with a dataset of longitudinal experiments, we show that participants who were more intensely exposed to the virus outbreak became more anti-social than those with lower exposure, while other aspects of economic and social preferences remain largely stable. The finding is robust to multiple hypothesis testing and a similar, yet less pronounced pattern emerges when using alternative measures of virus exposure, reflecting societal concern and sentiment, constructed using social media data. The anti-social response is particularly pronounced for individuals who experienced an increase in depression or negative affect, which highlights the important role of psychological health as a potential mechanism through which the virus outbreak affected behaviour.
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