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100 _aAlsan, Marcella et al
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245 _aCivil liberties in times of crisis
260 _aAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics
300 _a15(4), Oct, 2023: p.389-421
520 _aWe 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 https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20210736
773 _aAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics
906 _aHEALTH SECURITY
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