Cautionary tales: Celebrities, the news media, and participation in tax amnesties

Garz, Marcel; Pagels, Verena

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2018.09.001

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“…More broadly, our paper also relates to previous work on the impact of public figures in the setting of social norms (Acemoglu and Jackson, 2015;Hermalin, 1998), political preferences (Dippel andHeblich, 2021), unethical conduct (d'Adda, Darai, Pavanini, andWeber, 2017;Garz and Pagels, 2018;Cagé, Dagorret, Grosjean, and Jha, 2020;Grosjean, Masera, and Yousaf, 2020), and short-run beliefs and behavior (Bassi and Rasul, 2017;Stroebel and van Benthem, 2012). Our results suggest that leaders might affect citizens propensity to behave dishonestly by changing their self-imposed moral costs of stealing.…”

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confidence: 68%

Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft

Gulino,

Masera

2023

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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Is dishonest behavior contagious? We answer this question by studying whether corruption scandals affect the propensity of supermarket customers to steal while using a self-service checkout system. Crucially, this system allows shoppers to engage in dishonest behavior by underreporting the value of their shopping cart. Exploiting data from random audits on shoppers, we show that the probability of stealing increases by 16 percent after a local corruption scandal breaks. This effect is not driven by any change in material incentives. Suggestive evidence shows that it is driven by a reduction in the self-imposed cost of stealing. (JEL D12, D73, D91, K42, L81, Z13)

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 68%

Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft

Gulino,

Masera

2023

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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“…Despite these limitations, our results fit squarely within the literature documenting how celebrity exposure can cause changes in behavior amongst groups who are most geographically, ideologically, and demographically similar to them. For instance, recent studies have found that celebrities can affect discrimination (Alrababah et al., 2021), political support (Xiong, 2021) election outcomes (Garthwaite & Moore, 2013; Wang, 2021), book sales (Garthwaite, 2014), and tax delinquency (Garz & Pagels, 2018). 30 Additional research has documented how public figures disclosing their health status can affect the behavior and attitudes of at‐risk populations.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information shocks and celebrity exposure: The effect of “Magic” Johnson on AIDS diagnoses and mortality in the U.S.

2023

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I think sometimes we think, well, only gay people can get it -"It's not going to happen to me." And here I am saying that it can happen to anybody, even me.-Earvin "Magic" Johnson, 1991 1 | INTRODUCTIONThe AIDS 2 pandemic was one of the largest public health crizes in the 20th century. While there is typically a large degree of informational asymmetries between health experts and at-risk populations which exacerbate similar contagions, the AIDS pandemic is in many ways defined by it. As the virus became increasingly prevalent throughout the world, scientific understanding of its origins, causes, and consequences rapidly increased, while the general public's understanding lagged. Though a substantial majority of Americans during the height of the AIDS pandemic understood how HIV could be contracted, there existed large gaps in knowledge regarding its transmission risks-particularly amongst heterosexuals (Herek & Capitanio, 1998;Herek et al., 2002Herek et al., , 2005. There were few (if any) shocks to these beliefs which were greater than when Earvin "Magic" Johnson publicly announced that he had contracted HIV on

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“…The predicted Coverage t values are then used in the second stage to predict the number of mass shootings on days t + 1 until t + 7, following equation (1). This identification strategy is akin to Jetter (2017a,b) and Garz and Pagels (2018) who employ natural disasters as an exogenous variation when predicting terror attacks and participation in tax amnesties.…”

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confidence: 99%