Savage David A.
Two sides of the same coin or two different coins?
Exploring the duality of corruption in Latin America
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The ambiguous phenomenon of corruption has long b een the cause of great theoretical debate ineconomics. By using Structural Equation Modelling, with the two types of corruption as a latent variable, this paper employs causal and indicative...
To Swing or Not to Swing:
An Assessment of Age and Political Cynicism of Swing Voting
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The empirical question of voting preferences and how these may change (swing) is yet to beanswered, as there is little first-hand microeconomic evidence on swing voting. We focus on the interactions between voters’ age and political cynic...
Sporting events can be seen as controlled, real-world, miniature laboratory environments, approaching the idea of “holding other things equal” when exploring the implications of decisions, incentives, and constraints in a competitive se...
“Grease” or “Sand” the Wheels of Economic Development:
A Meta-Analysis of Corruption
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Corruption literature within economics has long returned ambiguous results with no concisecause or impact of corruption identified. This meta-analysis aims to find synergy within the corruption literature by assessing macroeconomic empirica...
How confidence in health care systems affects
mobility and compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Trust in the health care system requires being confident that suffic ient and appropriatetreatments will be provided if needed. The CO VID-19 public health crisis is a significant, global, and (mostly) simultaneous test of the behav ioral i...
Can Psychological Traits Explain Mobility
Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic?
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The current COVID-19 pandemic is a global exogenous shock, impactingindividuals’ decision making and behavi our allowing researchers to test theories of personality by exploring how traits, in conjunction with individual and societal diff...
Although science has been an incredibly pow erful and revolutionary force, it is notclear whether science is suited to perf ormance under pressure; generally, science achieves best in its usual comfort zone of patience, caution, and slownes...
Behavioural responses to pandemics are less shaped by actual mortality or hospitalization risksthan they are by risk attitudes. We explore human mobility patterns as a measure of behavioural responses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our resul...
Certified Corona-Immunity as a Resource and Strategy to Cope with Pandemic Costs
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A pandemic is not only a biological event and a public health disaster, but it alsogenerates impacts that are worth understan ding from a societal, historical, and cultural perspective. In this contribution, we argue that as the disease spr...
Variation in risk seeking behavior in a natural
experiment on large losses induced by a natural
disaster
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This study explores people's risk attitudes after having suffered largereal-world losses following a natural disaster. Using the margins of the 2011 Australian oods (Brisbane) as a natural experimental setting, we find that homeowners who w...
The emergence of emotions and pro-social and religious sentiments during the September 11 disaster
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Analysing emotional states under duress or during heightened, life-and-death situations is extremely difficult,especially given the inability of laboratory experiments to adequately replicate the environment and the inherent biases of post ...
Baron von Richthofen (the Red Baron) arguably the most famous fighter pilot of all time paintedhis plane the vividest of red hues, making it visible and identifiable at great distance, showing an aggressive pronouncement of dominance to oth...
Retaining the Thin Blue Line:
What Shapes Workers› Willingness Not to Quit the Current Work Environment
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of police officersÕ willingnessto quit their current department. For this purpose, we work with US survey data that covers a large set of police officers of the Baltimore Police ...
Gender Variations of Physiolocical and Psychological Stress Among Police Officers
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This paper analyses the effect of gender on reported and perceived levels of stress throughexamination of both the physical and psychological indicators. It may be interesting to work with police data due to high stress levels among police ...
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social capital in reducing the negative externalities associated with stress,as well as the physical and psychological indicators of stress among police officers. Despite the fact that there is a lar...
There is a notable shortage of empirical research directed at measuring the magnitude anddirection of stress effects on performance in a controlled environment. One reason for this is the inherent difficulties in identifying and isolating d...
The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better...
This paper explored the determinants of survival in a life and death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested to see whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on t...