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Mitigating adverse social and health impacts of COVID-19 with applied arts
Metzger, Martina; Steinhauer, Hans Walter; Pédussel … - 2024
In this project, we analyze whether the arts can mitigate negative impacts of social distancing and isolation on mental health and wellbeing, ease the burden of closed day-care and school facilities on families, and preserve attitudes of solidarity and trust. Using the SOEP-CoV questionnaire, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015078663
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Mitigating adverse social and health impacts of COVID-19 with applied arts
Metzger, Martina; Steinhauer, Hans Walter; Pédussel … - 2024
In this project, we analyze whether the arts can mitigate negative impacts of social distancing and isolation on mental health and wellbeing, ease the burden of closed day-care and school facilities on families, and preserve attitudes of solidarity and trust. Using the SOEP-CoV questionnaire, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015081292
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Economic Growth and Obesity : Findings of an Obesity Kuznets Curve
Cotet Grecu, Anca; Rotthoff, Kurt W. - 2014
Simon Kuznets’ (1955) hypothesis that as a country develops, a natural cycle develops where inequality first increases, then decreases, has become known at the Kuznets curve. This pattern has also been applied to the environment, an ‘Environmental Kuznets curve’, showing that as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014150161
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How regulation might fail to reduce energy consumption while still stimulating total factor productivity growth
Bansal, Sangeeta; Filippini, Massimo; Srinivasan, Suchita - 2023 - Last revision: January 27, 2023
This paper evaluates the impact of a policy that was implemented to reduce the energy intensity of firms in some manufacturing sectors in India, on the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of firms and on its components, scale efficiency and technical change. Using plant-level panel data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013549825
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Trends and Preferences in Consumer Payments : Updates from the Visa Payment Panel Study
Herbst-Murphy, Susan - 2015
Michael Marx, senior director, Visa Research Insights, conducted a workshop in 2009 at the Payment Cards Center (PCC) as the economy was emerging from a recession. At that time, it appeared that the recession had affected consumer payment preferences, especially those related to cash and credit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019914
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Preferences for Banking and Payment Services Among Low- and Moderate-Income Households
Barr, Michael S. - 2011
This paper characterizes the features of an account-based payment card – including bank debit cards, prepaid debit cards, and payroll cards – that elicit a high take-rate among low- and moderate-income (LMI) households, particularly those without bank accounts. We apply marketing research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127058
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Trends and Preferences in Consumer Payments : Updates from the Visa Payment Panel Study
Herbst-Murphy, Susan - 2015
Michael Marx, senior director, Visa Research Insights, conducted a workshop in 2009 at the Payment Cards Center (PCC) as the economy was emerging from a recession. At that time, it appeared that the recession had affected consumer payment preferences, especially those related to cash and credit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017419
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Deregulation in a time of pandemic : does pollution increase coronavirus cases or deaths?
Persico, Claudia; Johnson, Kathryn R. - 2020
The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness and increase deaths among the elderly, little is known about whether increases in pollution could cause...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213171
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Performance-Based Regulation : Prospects and Limitations in Health, Safety and Environmental Protection
Coglianese, Cary; Nash, Jennifer; Olmstead, Todd - 2022
Regulation aims to improve the performance of individual and organizational behavior in ways that reduce social harms … workplace risk. With this in mind, the phrase "performance-based regulation" might seem a bit redundant, since all regulation … improve their performance. Or they can incorporate the regulation's goal into the language of the rule, specifying the desired …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013298481
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The Increasing Weight of Regulation : Countries Combat the Global Obesity Epidemic
Taylor, Allyn L.; Parento, Emily Whelan; Schmidt, Laura - 2014
addition, the scale of the obesity epidemic combined with the global trend toward more comprehensive regulation may for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146713