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- Andersson, Ola, et al.
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Anticipation of COVID-19 Vaccines Reduces Social Distancing
- 2020
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We show that the anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines reduces voluntary social distancing. In a large-scale preregistered survey experiment with a representative sample, we study whether providing information about the safety, effectiveness, and availability of COVID-19 vaccines affects compliance with public health guidelines. We find that vaccine information reduces peoples' voluntary social distancing, adherence to hygiene guidelines, and their willingness to stay at home. Vaccine information induces people to believe in a swifter return to normal life and puts their vigilance at ease. The results indicate an important behavioral drawback of the successful vaccine development: An increased focus on vaccines can lead to bad health behaviors and accelerate the spread of the virus. The results imply that, as vaccinations start and the end of the pandemic feels closer, existing policies aimed at increasing social distancing will be less effective and stricter policies might be required.
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- Andersson, Ola, et al.
(författare)
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Anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines reduces social distancing
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Health Economics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0167-6296. ; 80
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We investigate how the anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines affects voluntary social distancing. In a large-scale preregistered survey experiment with a representative sample, we study whether providing information about the safety, effectiveness, and availability of COVID-19 vaccines affects the willingness to comply with public health guidelines. We find that vaccine information reduces peoples’ voluntary social distancing, adherence to hygiene guidelines, and their willingness to stay at home. Getting positive information on COVID-19 vaccines induces people to believe in a swifter return to normal life. The results indicate an important behavioral drawback of successful vaccine development: An increased focus on vaccines can lower compliance with public health guidelines and accelerate the spread of infectious disease. The results imply that, as vaccinations roll out and the end of a pandemic feels closer, policies aimed at increasing social distancing will be less effective, and stricter policies might be required.
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- Andersson, Ola, et al.
(författare)
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Anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines reduces willingness to socially distance
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Health Economics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0167-6296 .- 1879-1646. ; 80
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We investigate how the anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines affects voluntary social distancing. In a large-scale preregistered survey experiment with a representative sample, we study whether providing information about the safety, effectiveness, and availability of COVID-19 vaccines affects the willingness to comply with public health guidelines. We find that vaccine information reduces peoples’ voluntary social distancing, adherence to hygiene guidelines, and their willingness to stay at home. Getting positive information on COVID-19 vaccines induces people to believe in a swifter return to normal life. The results indicate an important behavioral drawback of successful vaccine development: An increased focus on vaccines can lower compliance with public health guidelines and accelerate the spread of infectious disease. The results imply that, as vaccinations roll out and the end of a pandemic feels closer, policies aimed at increasing social distancing will be less effective, and stricter policies might be required.
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- Andersson, Ola, et al.
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Attityder och beteenden under covid-19-pandemin
- 2021
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Ingår i: Ekonomisk Debatt. - 0345-2646. ; 49:6, s. 5-18
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Sverige valde en annan väg under pandemin. Men vad tyckte egentligen svenskarna om strategin och hur utvecklades synen på strategin över tiden? Vad kännetecknar de som fann de svenska åtgärderna tillräckliga och de som ansåg dem otillräckliga? Vi presentar en kartläggning av attityder, oro och beteenden och hur de relaterar till sociodemografiska variabler, preferenser och politiska attityder. Den svenska pandemihanteringen har starkare stöd bland de med hög tillit, de som står till vänster politiskt, samt de med hög tolerans för hälsorisker. Följsamheten till restriktioner varierar med risktolerans och tillit, men också med individens grad av tålmodighet och altruism.
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- Andersson, Ola, et al.
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Differences Attract : An Experimental Study of Focusing in Economic Choice
- 2021
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Ingår i: Economic Journal. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0013-0133 .- 1468-0297. ; 131:639, s. 2671-2692
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Several behavioural models of choice assume that decision makers place more weight on attributes where options differ more, an assumption we test in a set of experiments. We find that subjects are more likely to choose an option when we add options increasing the maximal difference in the original option's strongest attribute, suggesting that the decision maker's focus is drawn to attributes with a high spread. Additional experiments corroborate this finding. Still, we document that the focusing effect diminishes when options are presented using numbers instead of graphs or when subjects are forced to wait before submitting their answers.
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- Andersson, Ola, et al.
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GRIND OR GAMBLE? AN EXPERIMENT ON EFFORT AND SPREAD SEEKING IN CONTESTS
- 2020
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Ingår i: Economic Inquiry. - : Wiley. - 0095-2583 .- 1465-7295. ; 58:1, s. 169-183
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We conduct a contest experiment to study if spread seeking and effort can be managed when participants can invest in increasing both the mean and the spread of an uncertain performance variable. Subjects are treated with different prize schemes and in accordance with theory, we observe higher investments in spread for the winner-take-all scheme. Both types of investments can be controlled with a three-level prize scheme. However, the control management is imperfect and behavior is characterized by inertia. We also explore the correlation between effort and spread across subjects and find that is robustly positive.
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- Andersson, Ola, et al.
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Risking Other People's Money : Experimental Evidence on the Role of Incentives and Personality Traits
- 2020
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Economics. - : Wiley. - 1467-9442 .- 0347-0520. ; 122:2, s. 648-674
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Decision makers often face incentives to increase risk‐taking on behalf of others through bonus contracts and relative performance contracts. We conduct an experimental study of risk‐taking on behalf of others using a large heterogeneous sample and find that people respond to such incentives without much apparent concern for stakeholders. Responses are heterogeneous and mitigated by personality traits. The findings suggest that lack of concern for others’ risk exposure hardly requires “financial psychopaths” in order to flourish, but is diminished by social concerns.
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- Andersson, Ola, et al.
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Robust inference in risk elicitation tasks
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. - : Springer Nature. - 0895-5646 .- 1573-0476. ; 61:3, s. 195-209
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent experimental evidence suggests that noisy behavior correlates strongly with personal characteristics. Since decision noise leads to bias in most elicitation tasks, there is a risk of falsely interpreting noise-driven relationships as preference driven. This puts previous studies that found a negative relation between personality measures and risk aversion into perspective and in particular raises the question of how to achieve robust inference in this domain. This paper shows, by way of an economic experiment with subjects from all walks of life, that using structural estimation to model heterogeneity of noise in combination with a balanced design allows us to mitigate the bias problem. Our estimations show that cognitive ability is related to noisy behavior rather than risk preferences. We also find age and education to be strongly related to noise, but the personality characteristics obtained using the Big Five inventory are less related to noise and more robustly correlated to risk preferences.
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- Andersson, Ola, et al.
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The impact of stay-at-home policies on individual welfare
- 2022
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Economics. - : Wiley. - 0347-0520 .- 1467-9442. ; 124:2, s. 340-362
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we perform a choice experiment assessing the impact of stay-at-home policies on individual welfare. We estimate the willingness to accept compensation (WTA) for restricting non-working hours in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic. The WTA for a one-month stay-at-home policy is about US$480 per person, or 9.1 percent of Sweden's monthly per capita GDP. Stricter lockdowns require disproportionately higher compensation than more lenient ones, indicating that strict policies are cost-effective only if they are much more successful in slowing the spread of the disease. Moreover, older people have a higher WTA of staying home than the rest of the population.
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