Alsan, Marcella et al   <br/><br/>
Civil liberties in times of crisis 

 - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics   
 - 15(4), Oct, 2023: p.389-421 
<br/><br/> We study people's willingness to trade off civil liberties for increased health security in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by deploying 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 willingness to sacrifice civil liberties by 68–83 percent of the difference between the average Chinese and US citizen.- Reproduced <br/><br/>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20210736