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Americans’ Responses to Terrorism and Mass-Shooting: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey and Well-Being Module

Clark, Andrew; Stancanelli, Elena - 2017

subjective well-being fell dramatically after the BMB, and especially so for women, who are likely more averse to risk; but the …

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Is Secessionism Mostly About Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions

Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño Ortín, Ignacio; Özak, Ömer - 2022

This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...

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Ethnic Divisions and the Onset of Civil Wars in Syria

Abosedra, Salah; Fakih, Ali; Haimoun, Nathir - 2021

While most civil wars seem to have an economic basis, they are generally pushed by political, ethnic, and religious differences. This paper attempts to identify the drivers of the Syrian civil war of 2011 by investigating the role of ethnic divisions in starting a conflict. We integrate a...

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Racial diversity, immigrants and the well-being of residents: Evidence from U.S. counties

Kuroki, Masanori - 2017

White women, respectively. The percentage of the non-White population seems to reduce older Whites’ life satisfaction more … associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the … (approximately one-half of a standard deviation) is associated with 0.006 and 0.007 points reduction in life satisfaction on a four …

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Violent Conflict Exposure in Nigeria and Labor Supply of Farm Households

Chiwuzulum Odozi, John; Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo - 2020

Nigeria has experienced bouts of violent conflict in different regions over the last few decades leading to significant loss of life. In this paper, we explore the potential short and accumulated long term effects of such conflict on labor supply of agricultural households. Using a nationally...

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Conflict Exposure and Economic Welfare in Nigeria

Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo - 2019

using the three waves of the Nigeria General Household Survey (GHS) combined with ACLED conflict data. Employing a fixed …

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The Perceived Well-being and Health Costs of Exiting Self-Employment

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris; Popova, Olga - 2020

We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i …

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Is Happiness U-shaped Everywhere? Age and Subjective Well-being in 145 Countries

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

A large empirical literature has debated the U-shaped happiness-age curve. This paper re-examines the relationship between various measures of well-being and age in one hundred and forty-five countries, including one hundred and nine developing countries, controlling for education, marital and...

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COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends

Brodeur, Abel; Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; … - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has led many governments to implement lockdowns. While lockdowns may help to contain the spread of the virus, they may result in substantial damage to population well-being. We use Google Trends data to test whether the lockdowns implemented in Europe and America led to...

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A year of pandemic: levels, changes and validity of well-being data from Twitter. Evidence from ten countries

Sarracino, Francesco; Greyling, Talita; O'Connor, Kelsey; … - 2021

assess the validity of data sourced from Twitter, we exploit various sources of survey data, such as Eurobarometer and … consumer satisfaction, and big data, such as Google Trends. Results indicate that sentiment analysis of Tweets an provide …

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