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Appendix C US Travel and Attitudes Toward the United States
Appendix C US Travel and Attitudes Toward the United States
Pages 154-160
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, whether the person admires the United States for its scientific and technologic advances (ADUSST) , and the interaction of the previous two variables (USTRADUSST)
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This is displayed in Figure C-1. In light of the events of 9/11, policy makers may be particularly interested in how many of those who have visited the United States have very negative opinions of the United States.
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50 Have Visited United States 40 Have Not Visited 30 United States Respondentsof 20 10 Percent0 Very Somewhat Somewhat Very Unfavorable Unfavorable Favorable Favorable FIGURE C-2 Opinions of the United States of people who have and have not visited the United States. the United States, by whether a person has visited the United States, is displayed in Figure C-2.
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The right-hand-side variables included in all regressions are dummy variables representing the effect of each country and controls for age, education, and whether the respondents have friends or family in the United States with whom they correspond regularly. "Extra Controls" are controls for the respondent's opinion of the dominant country in his or her region and whether the respondent has traveled outside his or her own country in the last 5 years.
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Although we do not have such data, we do have data on whether they admire United States scientific and technological achievements. People in nearly every part the world frequently come into contact with United States scientific and technological achievements (cars, for example)
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YES YES YES Sample ALL At least a college At least a college education; education; age < 46 years age < 46 years N 10,492 2,272 2,272 R-Squared 0.346 0.287 0.289 technology (ADUSST) .3 Moreover, it is plausible that ADUSST is highly correlated with people's previsit attitudes toward the United States, inasmuch as we would expect people who like the United States in general also to admire United States science and technology.4 We will therefore use ADUSST as an imperfect measure of respondents' attitudes toward the United States in the absence of visiting the United States.
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Reverse causality may be at work: Having a good attitude toward the United States may cause travel to the United States, and not the other way around. Because the data do not contain a good instrument for travel to the United States, we have tried to address the issues in the ways discussed above, but our conclusions must still be viewed with caution.
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