Trouble on my mind: the effect of catastrophic events on people’s worries

Publikation: Beiträge in ZeitschriftenZeitschriftenaufsätzeForschungbegutachtet

Standard

Trouble on my mind: the effect of catastrophic events on people’s worries. / Ehlert, Andree; Seidel, Jan; Weisenfeld, Ursula.
in: Empirical Economics, Jahrgang 59, Nr. 2, 01.08.2020, S. 951-975.

Publikation: Beiträge in ZeitschriftenZeitschriftenaufsätzeForschungbegutachtet

Harvard

APA

Vancouver

Bibtex

@article{b3baff50c3d64289ab33eb3ef90a6770,
title = "Trouble on my mind: the effect of catastrophic events on people{\textquoteright}s worries",
abstract = "Major economic, environmental, or social shocks induce uncertainty, which in turn may impact economic development and may require institutional change. Based on the idea that catastrophic events (CEs) affect people{\textquoteright}s perceptions of reality and judgments about the future, this paper analyzes the effect of CEs on people{\textquoteright}s worries in terms of social, economic, and environmental issues. In particular, we consider the terrorist attack 9/11 in 2001, the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008, and the nuclear disaster in Fukushima in 2011. We propose two possible mechanisms: A CE in one sphere may affect people{\textquoteright}s worries in general (“spillover”) or it may lead to people focusing on that sphere and being less worried about other spheres (“crowding out”). We argue that the determinants of the mechanisms are related to the type of CE, that a person{\textquoteright}s professional background moderates the influence of a CE on his or her worries, and that the subsequent development of worries is affected by whether institutional responses are contested. The analysis is based on longitudinal data of the German Socio-Economic Panel.",
keywords = "Management studies, Catastrophic event, Institutional change, Social, Environmental, Worries, Professional background, GSOEP, Spillover, Crowding out, Panel data, Catastrophic event, Institutional change, Social, Economic, Environmental, Worries, Professional background, GSOEP, Spillover, Crowding out, Panel data",
author = "Andree Ehlert and Jan Seidel and Ursula Weisenfeld",
year = "2020",
month = aug,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/s00181-019-01682-9",
language = "English",
volume = "59",
pages = "951--975",
journal = "Empirical Economics",
issn = "0377-7332",
publisher = "Physica-Verlag",
number = "2",

}

RIS

TY - JOUR

T1 - Trouble on my mind

T2 - the effect of catastrophic events on people’s worries

AU - Ehlert, Andree

AU - Seidel, Jan

AU - Weisenfeld, Ursula

PY - 2020/8/1

Y1 - 2020/8/1

N2 - Major economic, environmental, or social shocks induce uncertainty, which in turn may impact economic development and may require institutional change. Based on the idea that catastrophic events (CEs) affect people’s perceptions of reality and judgments about the future, this paper analyzes the effect of CEs on people’s worries in terms of social, economic, and environmental issues. In particular, we consider the terrorist attack 9/11 in 2001, the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008, and the nuclear disaster in Fukushima in 2011. We propose two possible mechanisms: A CE in one sphere may affect people’s worries in general (“spillover”) or it may lead to people focusing on that sphere and being less worried about other spheres (“crowding out”). We argue that the determinants of the mechanisms are related to the type of CE, that a person’s professional background moderates the influence of a CE on his or her worries, and that the subsequent development of worries is affected by whether institutional responses are contested. The analysis is based on longitudinal data of the German Socio-Economic Panel.

AB - Major economic, environmental, or social shocks induce uncertainty, which in turn may impact economic development and may require institutional change. Based on the idea that catastrophic events (CEs) affect people’s perceptions of reality and judgments about the future, this paper analyzes the effect of CEs on people’s worries in terms of social, economic, and environmental issues. In particular, we consider the terrorist attack 9/11 in 2001, the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008, and the nuclear disaster in Fukushima in 2011. We propose two possible mechanisms: A CE in one sphere may affect people’s worries in general (“spillover”) or it may lead to people focusing on that sphere and being less worried about other spheres (“crowding out”). We argue that the determinants of the mechanisms are related to the type of CE, that a person’s professional background moderates the influence of a CE on his or her worries, and that the subsequent development of worries is affected by whether institutional responses are contested. The analysis is based on longitudinal data of the German Socio-Economic Panel.

KW - Management studies

KW - Catastrophic event

KW - Institutional change

KW - Social

KW - Environmental

KW - Worries

KW - Professional background

KW - GSOEP

KW - Spillover

KW - Crowding out

KW - Panel data

KW - Catastrophic event

KW - Institutional change

KW - Social

KW - Economic

KW - Environmental

KW - Worries

KW - Professional background

KW - GSOEP

KW - Spillover

KW - Crowding out

KW - Panel data

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85064519253&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s00181-019-01682-9

DO - 10.1007/s00181-019-01682-9

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 59

SP - 951

EP - 975

JO - Empirical Economics

JF - Empirical Economics

SN - 0377-7332

IS - 2

ER -

DOI

Zuletzt angesehen

Publikationen

  1. Observing the Middle Elbe Biosphere in Germany by Means of TerraSAR-X Images
  2. Jenseits des Regierungsalltags
  3. Vertrags- und Nachtragscontrolling
  4. Der Übergang ins Postfossile Zeitalter- Übersehene Knappheiten
  5. Influences of entrainers to engine oil to improve the drag-out of biodiesel
  6. Social network changes and life events across the life span
  7. Drugs, Diagnostic Agents and Disinfectants in Wastewater and Water - A Review
  8. The Creative Potential of Multilingual Picturebooks
  9. Im Schatten des Terrors
  10. Making kin, not babies? Towards childist kinship in the “Anthropocene”
  11. The German turnover tax statistics panel
  12. Der kosmomorphe Glaube Einsteins und der sogenannte "Gottesbrief"
  13. Einführung und normatives Umweltmanagement
  14. Männertränen und Gesellschaft
  15. Julius Meier-Graefe: Vom „Kampf um“ zur „Sehnsucht nach“ dem Stil
  16. Communicative Constitution Model of Organizations
  17. Choosing Task Characteristics Shields Against Incidental Affective Influences
  18. Associations' agreement and the interest of the network suppliers
  19. Mir Schirm, Puck und Softball
  20. Zeitbudget in Deutschland
  21. Rezension zu: Intellectual Property in the Global Arena. Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, and the Recognition of Judgments in Europe, Japan and the US. Ed. by Jürgen Basedow, Toshiyuki Kono and Axel Metzger. Mohr Siebeck 2010. X, 404 S. (Materialien zum ausländischen und internationalen Privatrecht, Band 49)
  22. Gesprächsprozesse moderieren
  23. Hessel, Franz
  24. Subjektivierung durch Normalisierung
  25. Umwelt (Umweltpolitik)
  26. Der Weg ist das Ziel?
  27. "People are our success"
  28. Meinungen zum Bildungsgang Realschule
  29. Mädchenarbeit und die Politik des Mainstreaming - alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen - oder frischer Wind
  30. Werkstattheft - Mit Parkettierungen, Formen und Symmetrien experimentieren
  31. Bildungswachstum und soziale Differenzen
  32. Die mitbestimmungsfreie Zone - ein Problemfeld?
  33. Freie Berufe im Wandel der Arbeitsmärkte
  34. Lernmaterialien im Sportunterricht
  35. Handeln Gottes II. Dogmatisch
  36. Einblicke - Ausblicke
  37. Eine notwendige Korrektur der Theorie sozialer Systeme
  38. Legal aspects of genetic data banking in Germany
  39. Volkserziehung oder Institutionenreform?
  40. The development of sexuality and love