A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19

K Ruggeri, F Stock, SA Haslam, V Capraro, P Boggio… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions, with behavioural science increasingly
part of this process. In April 2020, an influential paper proposed 19 policy recommendations …

Explaining the US rural disadvantage in COVID-19 case and death rates during the Delta-Omicron surge: The role of politics, vaccinations, population health, and …

M Jones, M Bhattar, E Henning, SM Monnat - Social Science & Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Delta-Omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (Wave 4) in the United States
occurred in Fall of 2021 through Spring of 2022. Although vaccinations were widely …

Divided by the jab: Affective polarisation based on COVID vaccination status

M Wagner, JM Eberl - Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Group-based affective polarisation can emerge around new issues that divide citizens. The
public response to vaccines against COVID-19 provided a clear example of a new basis for …

[CARTE][B] Partisan hostility and American democracy: explaining political divisions and when they matter

JN Druckman, S Klar, Y Krupnikov, M Levendusky… - 2024 - books.google.com
An unflinching examination of the effects and boundaries of partisan animosity. For
generations, experts argued that American politics needed cohesive parties to function …

Local control, discretion, and administrative burden: SNAP interview waivers and caseloads during the COVID-19 pandemic

C Heflin, WC Fannin, L Lopoo - The American Review of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Department of Agriculture waived the certification
interview for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), substantially …

[HTML][HTML] Promoting COVID-19 vaccine confidence through public responses to misinformation: The joint influence of message source and message content

RM Wood, M Juanchich, M Ramirez, S Zhang - Social Science & Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective During the pandemic healthcare professionals and political leaders routinely used
traditional and new media outlets to publicly respond to COVID-19 myths and inaccuracies …

State-specific fertility rate changes across the USA following the first two waves of COVID-19

S Adelman, M Charifson, E Seok… - Human …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
STUDY QUESTION How did the first two coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) waves affect
fertility rates in the USA? SUMMARY ANSWER States differed widely in how their fertility …

Politicization of a Pathogen: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of COVID‐19 Responses in a Nationally Representative US Sample

DP Relihan, EA Holman, DR Garfin, PH Ditto… - Political …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding population‐level variability in responses to pathogens over time is important
for develo** effective health‐based messages targeted at ideologically diverse …

Racial resentment and support for COVID-19 travel bans in the United States

SK Gadarian, SW Goodman… - Political Science Research …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Travel bans were a globally prevalent policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the
United States, travel bans against China and European countries proved a broadly popular …

Partisanship in a Pandemic: Biased Voter Assessments of Past and Present Government Performance

D Snow, G Evans - Political Behavior, 2024 - Springer
Accountability relies on voters accurately evaluating government performance in addressing
the important issues of the day. This requirement arguably applies to an even greater extent …