Ho Fai Chan

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore human mobility patterns as a measure of behavioral responses during the COVID-19 pandemic and find that risk-taking attitudes are a critical factor in predicting reductions in human mobility and social confinement around the globe.

TL;DR: This article investigated whether receiving prestigious academic awards (the John Bates Clark Medal and the Fellowship of the Econometric Society) is associated with higher subsequent research productivity and status compared to a synthetic control group of non-recipient scholars with similar previous research performance.

TL;DR: Using a time-dynamic framework, it is found that societies with low levels of health care confidence initially exhibit a faster response with respect to staying home, but this reaction plateaus sooner, and after the plateau it declines with greater magnitude than does the response from societies with high health careconfidence.

TL;DR: The results indicate that risk-taking attitudes are a critical factor in predicting reductions in human mobility and social confinement around the globe and suggest that regions with risk-averse attitudes are more likely to adjust their behavioural activity in response to the declaration of a pandemic even before official government lockdowns.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the link between language used by founders and the contribution behavior of funders and investigate how verbal cues (saliency and sustainability intention) in the communication text can affect the size of the contributing crowd and amount raised in the context of Kickstarter.