| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP15410 |
| DP15410 Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis | |
| Marcella Alsan; Luca Braghieri; Sarah Eichmeyer; Minjeong Joyce Kim; David Yang | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-10-28 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Major crises --- from terrorist attacks to outbreaks of disease --- bring the trade-off between individual civil liberties and national security or well-being into sharp relief. In this paper, we study to what extent individual preferences for protecting rights and civil liberties are elastic to health insecurity. We design and conduct representative surveys involving approximately 550,000 responses across 15 countries, including China and the United States, during many months of the COVID-19 pandemic, from March 2020 until January 2021. We document significant heterogeneity across countries and demographic groups in willingness to sacrifice rights for public welfare. Citizens disadvantaged by income, education, or race are less willing to sacrifice rights than their more advantaged peers in every country, as are those with prior experience in communist regimes. Leveraging naturally-occurring variation as well as experimental approaches, we estimate that a one standard deviation increase in health security concerns increases willingness to sacrifice civil liberties by approximately 72%-92% of the difference between the average Chinese and U.S. citizen. Stated preferences correlate with observed behavior including demand for tracing apps, donations, and petitions. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Liberties Redistribution Cross-country surveys Experiment Public health |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp15410-0 |
| 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/544397 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Marcella Alsan,Luca Braghieri,Sarah Eichmeyer,et al. DP15410 Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis. 2020. |
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