The Virus of Fear: The Political Impact of Ebola in the U.S.

Campante, Filipe R.; Depetris-Chauvín, Emilio; Durante, Ruben

doi:10.3386/w26897

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“…Similarly, we cannot rule out that Fox News viewership effects during the COVID-19 outbreak reflect public statements by the Republican administration, as opposed to statements by Fox News anchors. During the 2014 US midterm elections, Campante et al (2020) show that Republican candidates' associations between Ebola virus risks and immigration shifted voter attitudes against immigration, in spite of the fact that health experts described Ebola risks in the US as very low.…”

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The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: Non-Compliance with Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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We test for and measure the effects of cable news in the US on regional differences in compliance with recommendations by health experts to practice social distancing during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. We use a quasi-experimental design to estimate the causal effect of Fox News viewership on stay-at-home behavior by using only the incremental local viewership due to the quasi-random assignment of channel positions in a local cable line-up. We find that a 10% increase in Fox News cable viewership (approximately 0:13 higher viewer rating points) leads to a 1.3 percentage point reduction in the propensity to stay at home. We find a persuasion rate of Fox News on non-compliance with stay-at-home behavior during the crisis of about 5:7%-28:4% across our various social distancing metrics.

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The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: Non-Compliance with Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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“…See, e.g., Costa et al (2018) . Likewise, there is evidence that both pandemics and recessions—as traumatic and stressful events—can shape the attitudes and preferences of those exposed during formative years in ways that can have lasting political and economic consequences (see, e.g., Campante et al (2020) ; Giuliano & Spilimbergo (2015); Malmendier & Nagel (2011) ; and Schoar & Zuo (2017) ).…”

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Disease, downturns, and wellbeing: Economic history and the long-run impacts of COVID-19

Arthi¹,

Parman²

2021

Explorations in Economic History

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How might COVID-19 affect human capital and wellbeing in the long run? The COVID-19 pandemic has already imposed a heavy human cost—taken together, this public health crisis and its attendant economic downturn appear poised to dwarf the scope, scale, and disruptiveness of most modern pandemics. What evidence we do have about other modern pandemics is largely limited to short-run impacts. Consequently, recent experience can do little to help us anticipate and respond to COVID-19’s potential long-run impact on individuals over decades and even generations. History, however, offers a solution. Historical crises offer closer analogues to COVID-19 in each of its key dimensions—as a global pandemic, as a global recession—and offer the runway necessary to study the life-course and intergenerational outcomes. In this paper, we review the evidence on the long-run effects on health, labor, and human capital of both historical pandemics (with a focus on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic) and historical recessions (with a focus on the Great Depression). We conclude by discussing how past crises can inform our approach to COVID-19—helping tell us what to look for, what to prepare for, and what data we ought to collect now.

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“…2 There is limited evidence on other political impacts of epidemics and containment efforts. Campante et al (2020) find that heightened concern about Ebola led to lower voter turnout in the United States but no evidence of an anti-incumbent effect. Amat et al (2020) show that following the COVID-19 outbreak in Spain, citizens expressed a stronger preference for technocratic governance and strong leadership.…”

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The Political Scar of Epidemics

Aksoy,

Eichengreen,

Saka

2020

SSRN Journal

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What will be political legacy of the Coronavirus pandemic? We find that epidemic exposure in an individual's "impressionable years" (ages 18 to 25) has a persistent negative effect on confidence in political institutions and leaders. We find similar negative effects on confidence in public health systems, suggesting that the loss of confidence in political leadership and institutions is associated with healthcare-related policies at the time of the epidemic. In line with this argument, our results are mostly driven by individuals who experienced epidemics under weak governments with less capacity to act against the epidemic, disappointing their citizens. We provide evidence of this mechanism by showing that weak governments took longer to introduce policy interventions in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. These results imply that the Coronavirus may leave behind a long-lasting political scar on the current young generation ("Generation Z").

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The Virus of Fear: The Political Impact of Ebola in the U.S.

Cited by 46 publications

References 11 publications

The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: Non-Compliance with Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic

The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: Non-Compliance with Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Disease, downturns, and wellbeing: Economic history and the long-run impacts of COVID-19

The Political Scar of Epidemics

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