Civil Liberties in Times of Crisist

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Alsan, Marcella; Braghieri, Luca; Eichmeyer, Sarah; Kim, Minjeong Joyce; Stantcheva, Stefanie; Yang, David Y.
• 署名单位: Bocconi University; Bocconi University; Bocconi University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Harvard University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20210736
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 389-421
• 关键词: exponential-growth bias; taboo trade-offs; randomized survey; preferences; polarization; INEQUALITY; DEMOCRACY; support

摘要

We study people's willingness to trade off civil liberties for increased health security in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by deploy-ing representative surveys involving around 550,000 responses across 15 countries. We document significant heterogeneity across groups in willingness to sacrifice rights: citizens disadvantaged by income, education, or race are less willing to sacrifice rights than their more advantaged peers in every country. Leveraging naturally occurring variation and experimental approaches, we estimate a one standard deviation increase in health insecurity increases will-ingness to sacrifice civil liberties by 68-83 percent of the difference between the average Chinese and US citizen. (JEL D12, D91, I12, I18, K38, O17,