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Behavioural Responses to COVID-19: The Role of Institutions and Identity
22 March 2021 | 11:00–12:15 (UTC+8) | Zoom |
Speakers
Prof. Ying-yi Hong
Dr Hongchuan Shen
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Professor, Department of Management, CUHK Business School
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Decision Sciences & Managerial Economics, CUHK Business School
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Discussant
Prof. Tian Xie
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Associate Professor, College of Business, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
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Moderator
Prof. Fanny M. Cheung
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Senior Advisor, Faculty of Social Science & Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, CUHK
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In this talk, the speakers shared their views about the role of institutions and identity in shaping our behavioural responses to COVID-19, and explored how economic, social, and political factors have shaped behavioural responses during COVID-19. The links between national identification and engagement in disease-preventive behaviours in China and the U.S. were also examined.
Prof. Hong discussed how national identification was linked to the adoption of disease-preventive behaviours in China and the U.S. The results of her team’s study revealed that national identification was generally associated with an increase in disease-preventive behaviours in both countries. However, among politically conservative American participants higher national identification was associated with greater trust in the Trump administration, which was then associated with the slower adoption of preventive behaviours.
Dr Shen explained the Behavioural Responses to Natural Disasters of Chinese individuals from the top down (formal) and bottom up (informal) aspects. From the top level, local leaders were effective in implementing lockdown policies; from the bottom level, adherents to Confucian values were observed to behave more hypocritically during the pandemic, while those exposed to domestic religions were found to be more altruistic. As a result, during China’s lockdown period people curtailed long-distance movements, but lingered more around their neighbourhood.
Prof. Xie discussed two presentations. He suggested that Prof. Hong’s team consider adopting more social media data to measure people’s political status and national identification. As for Dr Shen’s paper, Prof. Xie expressed concern about the estimation method used in the paper. He suggested using two-way linear fixed effects regression estimators instead of a linear regression estimator.
Around 103 participants attended the seminar.
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