Historical legacies do matter — but not all the time.
Their influence is conditional, showing up when scientific guidance is limited and policymakers fall back on ingrained intuitions. This has implications far beyond pandemics — for crisis policy, risk governance, and cultural persistence.
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Using weekly data (2020–2022) for:
182 countries worldwide and all US states, our study finds that:
- High‑exposure regions reacted more strongly to new COVID deaths in 2020
- The pattern holds within the United States
- The effect fades in 2021–2022, when knowledge and vaccines reduced uncertainty
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These “behavioral immune system” responses lie dormant in normal times — but they are activated during crises with fundamental uncertainty.
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The study shows that long‑run disease environments shape:
- intuitive reactions to health threats
- collective anxiety and support for protective measures
- governments’ willingness to impose strict containment policies
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Countries and US states with higher historical disease exposure responded more strongly to rising COVID deaths, especially in 2020, when:
- the virus was new
- models were unreliable
- vaccines did not yet exist
Once vaccines arrived and uncertainty declined, this historical effect disappeared.
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It was a great pleasure to host and listen to so many great presenters at this year’s ASWEDE outside Gothenburg. Already looking forward to next year in Stockholm!
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We are very excited about the new research opportunities that this VR funding opens up for the department.
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Opinion | The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away
Will we be able to trust key economic data from the US again?
The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
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EU should of course respond with tariffs in line with the measures agreed on in April. Time to take a break from the flattery that EU leaders have tried in different fora and show resolve.
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Kommenterar senatens behandling av Trumps budget Dagens ETC.
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Congratulations to @rhelensdotter.bsky.social !
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Several members of faculty in the development group @gothenburg-econ.bsky.social have taken part in this nice collaboration as supervisors. We thank our Ethiopian friends for their visit and hope for fruitful research interaction in the future.
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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
Our frequent guest and affiliated colleague Martin Berg Karlsson @drdemant.bsky.social has co-authored a paper on German health insurance that is forthcoming in @jpolecon.bsky.social. Congratulations! doi.org/10.1086/734781
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An illustration of how the Trump administration’s counterproductive tariffs hurt even the manufacturing of Swedish cars in the US.
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Our results show that while extreme Nile floods result in a greater degree of political instability (ruler and dynastic tenure durations), periods with a greater rainfall in the hinterland cause a decline in state capacity and a delayed increase in political instability.
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Effective enviromental circumscription was created through an interplay between Nile floods (proxied by rainfall over Highland Ethiopia) and Mediterranean rains that determined the productivity of the hinterland.
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Floods, droughts, and environmental circumscription in early state development: the case of ancient Egypt
My paper with Laura Mayoral on the political impact of floods and droughts in Ancient Egypt, is now assigned to an issue of JEconGrowth. We provide evidence of a "dynamic circumscription model" where Egypt was sometimes like a "social cage" where rulers could easily dominate.
rdcu.be/eoDL5
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Very good!!
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Such an incredibly well deserved PL title!!!
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Annie & Ned Lamont Professor of International Studies, Thomas J. Davis, Jr. Faculty Scholar @ SIEPR, Professor of Economics @ Stanford
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Economist interested in energy, environment, and climate
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Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor, Department of Politics, NYU. Author of The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today.
Economist @CEU. PhD from SSE/Stockholm Graduate Program +CEMFI. Posts related to Econ & Science, NLP, ML, Code, Human Rights, etc. Vienna based, but citizen of the 🌍.
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Just happily started at University of Potsdam, Chair of Empirical Economics. About to finish my PhD at University of Gothenburg.
Working on all these curious effects of taxation.
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Former EU politician, European Parliament, EU minister, EU commissioner for Home Affairs and Trade. Now at Lindholmen Science Park and a non resident senior fellow at PIIE. Visting professor at Göteborg Business school. Proud Tradeexperettes
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Behavioral economists at UC Berkeley
Postdoc at University of Gothenburg (previously: PhD at Erasmus University Rotterdam & Tinbergen Institute). Interested in economics of crime, discrimination, gender, and labour economics.
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PhD Candidate in labor and gender @Uppsala university.
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