6/6 Illicit trade in cultural goods affects not just markets, but identity & heritage. Our paper shows how trade data can reveal these hidden flows—and why better cooperation is essential. Looking forward to your comments!
📄 Read here 👉https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-025-09555-z

5/6 Policy takeaways:
♦️ Legal frameworks alone are insufficient!
♦️UNIDROIT 1995 is more effective than UNESCO 1970—but major markets (US, UK) haven’t ratified.
Enforcement capacity + international cooperation are crucial.

4/6 Findings:
☑️Gaps grow with interest in Italian culture 📈
☑️Stronger corruption control reduces gaps in regulated markets (sculptures, antiques)
☑️Archaeological property: post-2010 spike → linked to Arab Spring looting

3/6 🔎 Our contributions:
1️⃣ A new Cultural Salience Index (Google Trends data) to capture demand for Italian culture.
2️⃣ Gravity model of trade gaps, linking them to GDP, distance, corruption, and salience.
3️⃣ Assessment of UNESCO 1970 & UNIDROIT 1995 conventions.

2/6 We study trade gaps: the difference between Italy’s reported exports and partner countries’ reported imports in:
🎨 Paintings
🗿 Sculptures
🕰️ Antiques
🏺 Archaeological property

8/ Low-cost information interventions work, BUT messaging must be context-sensitive: Private narratives foster personal responsibility, public narratives risk backfiring when trust in institutions is low or public provision is seen as sufficient. docs.iza.org/dp18054.pdf

7/ Geographic differences: 🌍 In post-communist countries, public & neutral framings lower donations—likely reflecting lower institutional trust & weaker private giving norms.

6/ Heterogeneity matters: 🔹 Stronger effects among those with lived experience or high concern. 🔹 But when people perceive public provision as adequate, collective framings reduce private contributions → a substitution effect.

5/ Stigma reduction emerges as a key mechanism: 🧠 All framings significantly reduce mental health stigma. This partly explains higher donations, especially under public framing.

4/ Main findings: ✅ All three mental health framings significantly increase cooperation & donations vs. control. ✅ People act even without expecting others to do the same → intrinsic motivation matters!

3/ After exposure, participants made real-money decisions:
A Public Goods Game → cooperation measured via contributions.
A Charity Dictator Game → donations to mental health & other causes.

2/ Participants were randomly exposed to one of three framings:
🔹 Private → individual benefits of investing in mental health
🔹 Public → collective benefits for society
🔹 Neutral → prevalence facts only

1/ Mental health is key for well-being & productivity, yet investment remains chronically low. We ran a pre-registered online experiment (N = 8,312) in 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇸🇪 🇱🇻 🇸🇰 to test how different framings affect citizens’ willingness to act.

📄 Read the paper: docs.iza.org/dp18013.pdf
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