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Experienced well-being and compliance behaviour: new applications of Quality of Life theories, using AI and real-time data
Rossouw, Stephanié; Greyling, Talita - 2025
contemporary well-being research is the intersection between experienced well-being measures and societal compliance, especially in …-being indicators are repositioned as behavioural inputs that shape compliance with public health interventions. Drawing on … structural and subjective, predict compliance with COVID-19 vaccination policy. Results show that general trust and happiness are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015404570
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The Safest Time to Fly: Pandemic Response in the Era of Fox News
Ananyev, Maxim; Poyker, Michael; Tian, Yuan - 2020
We document a causal effect of conservative Fox News Channel in the United States on physical distancing during COVID-19 pandemic. We measure county-level mobility covering all U.S. states and District of Columbia produced by GPS pings to 15-17 million smartphones and zip-code-level mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387898
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The Safest Time to Fly: Pandemic Response in the Era of Fox News
Ananyev, Maxim; Poyker, Michael; Tian, Yuan - 2021
We document a causal effect of conservative Fox News Channel in the United States on physical distancing during COVID-19 pandemic. We measure county-level mobility covering all U.S. states and District of Columbia produced by GPS pings to 15-17 million smartphones and zip-code-level mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012436802
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The Distributional Consequences of Social Distancing on Poverty and Labour Income Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Delaporte, Isaure; Escobar, Julia; Peña, Werner - 2021
under the formal (de jure) lockdown policies assuming perfect compliance with the shares under de facto lockdowns where … there is some degree of non-compliance. We then estimate individuals' potential labour income losses and examine changes in … of non-compliance as a coping strategy during the lockdowns. Social distancing measures have led to an increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500135
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The Marital Satisfaction of Differently-Aged Couples
Lee, Wang-Sheng; McKinnish, Terra - 2017
We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage using household panel data from Australia. We find that men tend to be more satisfied with younger wives and less satisfied with older wives. Interestingly, women likewise tend to...
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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences: A large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, Shyamal; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Economic preferences – like time, risk and social preferences – have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences...
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Livelihood Diversification Strategies: Resisting Vulnerability in Egypt
Helmy, Imane - 2020
Livelihood diversification is attracting considerable interest as a tool to cope with economic shocks and resist vulnerability. This paper investigates the evolution of livelihood diversification in Egypt with a particular focus on wealth and urban-rural divides. Using Egypt Labor Market Panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012144242
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The intensity of COVID-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and labor market outcomes in the public sector
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2020
mobility (Google data) to show that among individuals living in a typical state, the NPIs enforcement during the COVID-19 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262294
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Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: A large-scale experiment
Chowdhury, Shyamal; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
Economic preferences are important for lifetime outcomes such as educational achievements, health status, or labor market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 families (and 1,999 individuals) from rural Bangladesh...
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Female Labor Force Participation in Five Selected MENA Countries: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia)
Lassassi, Moundir; Tansel, Aysit - 2020
This paper considers the female labor force participation (FLFP) behavior over the past decade in five MENA countries namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries, are well documented. We conduct synthetic panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012302187