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Teen social interactions and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic

Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2023

Adolescence is an important developmental period when teens begin spending less time with their parents and more time with friends and others outside their households as they transition into adulthood. Using the 2017-2021 American Time Use Surveys and the 2012, 2013, and 2021 Well-being Modules,...

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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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Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people to be unhappy? : evidence from a six-country survey

Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2021

Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people unhappy? In this study, we use a recent survey from China, Japan, South Korea, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States to explore this question. We find a relatively large effect: a one per-mille point increase in the incidence of the COVID-19...

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Delving into the eye of the cyclone to quantify the cascading impacts of natural disasters on life satisfaction

Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis - 2024

impacts on individual life satisfaction remain insufficiently understood. This study pioneers a causal analysis of cyclones …' impacts on Australians' life satisfaction, using local cyclones as natural experiments. Analysing over two decades of data … residences, significantly reduce overall life satisfaction and specific domains like community, personal safety, and health …

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Trick or treat? : the Brexit effect on immigrants' wellbeing in the UK

Rienzo, Cinzia - 2020

improvement in both mental health and life satisfaction relative to the UK natives. The results are robust to several robustness …

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

Kuroki, Masanori - 2017

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 … (approximately two standard deviations) is associated with 0.009 and 0.021 points reduction in life satisfaction for White men and …

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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 J. - 2021

National Happiness (GNH), a country-level index built applying sentiment analysis to data from Twitter. Our aim is to describe … consumer satisfaction, and big data, such as Google Trends. Results indicate that sentiment analysis of Tweets an provide …

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The mental health effects of retirement

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019

We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects are heterogeneous by gender and marital status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects...

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Americans' responses to terrorism and mass-shooting : evidence from the American Time Use Survey and Well-Being module

Clark, Andrew E.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2017

A small but significant literature concludes that terrorism impacts the economy, although the impact of mass-shooting has not yet been addressed by economists. We compare the economic effects of two tragedies: the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing and the 2012 Sandy Hook School Shooting. Fatal...

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Getting warmer : fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being

Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021

fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong …

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