全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP14707 More than Words: Leaders’ Speech and Risky Behavior During a Pandemic

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP14707
	DP14707 More than Words: Leaders’ Speech and Risky Behavior During a Pandemic
	Tiago Cavalcanti; Nicolas Ajzenman; Daniel Da Mata
发表日期	2020-05-04
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	How do political leader’s words and actions affect people’s behavior? We address this question in the context of Brazil by combining electoral information and geo-localized mobile phone data for more than 60 million devices throughout the entire country. We find that after Brazil’s president publicly and emphatically dismissed the risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and advised against isolation, the social distancing measures taken by citizens in pro-government localities weakened compared to places where political support of the president is less strong, while pre-event effects are insignificant. The impact is large and robust to different empirical model specifications. Moreover, we find suggestive evidence that this impact is driven by localities with relatively higher levels of media penetration and is stronger in municipalities with a larger proportion of Evangelic parishioners, a key group in terms of support for the president.
主题	Development Economics
关键词	Health Coronavirus Leadership Persuasion Risky behavior
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp14707
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543624
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tiago Cavalcanti,Nicolas Ajzenman,Daniel Da Mata. DP14707 More than Words: Leaders’ Speech and Risky Behavior During a Pandemic. 2020.