Social identity and economic policy

M Shayo - Annual Review of Economics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
I review evidence that individuals associate themselves—or identify—with groups in two
fundamental ways: ingroup bias and conformity to group norms. The evidence spans many …

The trouble with trust: Time-series analysis of social capital, income inequality, and COVID-19 deaths in 84 countries

FJ Elgar, A Stefaniak, MJA Wohl - Social science & medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Can social contextual factors explain international differences in the spread of COVID-19? It
is widely assumed that social cohesion, public confidence in government sources of health …

Beyond Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) psychology: Measuring and mapping scales of cultural and psychological distance

M Muthukrishna, AV Bell, J Henrich… - Psychological …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we present a tool and a method for measuring the psychological and cultural
distance between societies and creating a distance scale with any population as the point of …

Gender in the time of COVID-19: Evaluating national leadership and COVID-19 fatalities

LC Windsor, G Yannitell Reinhardt, AJ Windsor… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
In this paper we explore whether countries led by women have fared better during the
COVID-19 pandemic than those led by men. Media and public health officials have lauded …

[HTML][HTML] How does private adaptation motivation to climate change vary across cultures? Evidence from a meta-analysis

B Noll, T Filatova, A Need - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2020 - Elsevier
Natural hazards, exacerbated by climate change, increasingly affect societies worldwide.
The accelerating risks entail that private adaptation complement more traditional public …

Denial of gender discrimination is associated with better subjective well‐being among women: A system justification account

JL Napier, A Suppes… - European Journal of Social …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the fact that women face socially and politically sanctioned disadvantages every
day, a large percentage of women and men report that gender discrimination is no longer a …

[HTML][HTML] How political and social trust can impact social distancing practices during COVID-19 in unexpected ways

FS Woelfert, JR Kunst - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In times of the coronavirus, complying with public health policies is essential to save lives.
Understanding the factors that influence compliance with social distancing measures is …

Gender differences in the pathways to higher education

G Stoet, DC Geary - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
It is well known that far fewer men than women enroll in tertiary education in the United
States and other Western nations. Developed nations vary in the degree to which men are …

Gender differences in performance of top cited scientists by field and country

HF Chan, B Torgler - Scientometrics, 2020 - Springer
In this descriptive study, we aim to show the potential gender differences in academic
success, focusing on the top (ie, most frequently cited) scientists by analyzing the work of …

[图书][B] Multilevel democracy: How local institutions and civil society shape the modern state

JM Sellers, A Lidström, Y Bae - 2020 - books.google.com
This volume presents the first systematic comparative analysis of national traditions of local
democracy across the developed world, as well as their origins and evolution. It reveals how …