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dc.titleResearch Insights: Unintended Byproducts of News Coverage about Noncompliance: A Social Norms Exploration
dc.contributor.authorMartínez Villarreal, Déborah
dc.contributor.authorParilli, Cristina
dc.contributor.authorScartascini, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorSimpser, Alberto
dc.contributor.orgunitDepartment of Research and Chief Economist
dc.coverageMexico
dc.date.available2021-05-11T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2021-05-11T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractSocial norms used in communications can help/hurt compliance with public health guidelines. In Mexico, a survey experiment was conducted to explore the knowledge-behavior gap in social distancing noncompliance. Despite believing that attending social gatherings is inappropriate, communicating to a person that friends are highly likely to attend the party increases the probability of generalizing others attendance and possibly their own. Believing that it is appropriate to attend a party during COVID-19 and knowing that most friends will go does not make one more likely to guess that a person will attend that party than if one believed it was not appropriate to attend the party. This represents a contradiction.
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dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003256
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Research-Insights-Unintended-Byproducts-of-News-Coverage-about-Noncompliance-A-Social-Norms-Exploration.pdf
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/spanish/document/Perspectivas-de-investigacion-Consecuencias-no-deseadas-de-la-cobertura-sobre-el-incumplimiento-Una-exploracion-de-las-normas-sociales.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectHealth Behavior
dc.subjectCoronavirus
dc.subjectPandemics
dc.subjectSocial Distancing
dc.subjectSocial Norm
dc.subject.jelcodeI12 - Health Behavior
dc.subject.jelcodeD91 - Intertemporal Household Choice • Life Cycle Models and Saving
dc.subject.jelcodeI18 - Government Policy • Regulation • Public Health
dc.subject.jelcodeD90 - Intertemporal Choice: General
dc.typeCatalogs and Brochures
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-CB-00525
idb.operationBK-C1102
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