| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w27776 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 27776 |
| Rugged Individualism and Collective (In)action During the COVID-19 Pandemic | |
| Samuel Bazzi; Martin Fiszbein; Mesay Gebresilasse | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-09-07 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Rugged individualism—the combination of individualism and anti-statism—is a prominent feature of American culture with deep roots in the country’s history of frontier settlement. Today, rugged individualism is more prevalent in counties with greater total frontier experience (TFE) during the era of westward expansion. While individualism may be conducive to innovation, it can also undermine collective action, with potentially adverse social consequences. We show that America’s frontier culture hampered the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Across U.S. counties, greater TFE is associated with less social distancing and mask use as well as weaker local government effort to control the virus. We argue that frontier culture lies at the root of several more proximate explanations for the weak collective response to public health risks, including a lack of civic duty, partisanship, and distrust in science. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Taxation ; Subnational Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Other ; Economic Systems ; COVID-19 |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27776 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585447 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Samuel Bazzi,Martin Fiszbein,Mesay Gebresilasse. Rugged Individualism and Collective (In)action During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 2020. |
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| w27776.pdf（703KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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