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Emotions were central to the development of economics, especially in utility theory in classical economics. While neoclassical utility theory basically abolished emotions, behavioural economics more recently reintroduced emotions in utility theory. Beyond utility theory, economic theorists use...
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While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific … increased weekly instruction time and study its effects on stress-related outpatient diagnoses from the universe of health … states, we show that the reform slightly increased stress-related health problems among school children. While increasing …
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We present a psychological model of stress. Appraisal translates stressors into subjective stress. Stress reduces … not go hand in hand with rising stress. First steps towards a theory of therapy show how stressed individuals can improve …
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,123 schoolchildren grades 6-10 in 15 California schools participated in the experiment. Although the program significantly increased …
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We introduce a simple, easy to implement instrument for jointly eliciting risk and ambiguity attitudes. Using this instrument, we structurally estimate a two-parameter model of preferences. Our findings indicate that ambiguity aversion is significantly overstated when risk neutrality is assumed....
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California, Texas, and Florida. The sensitivity of the results to migration elasticity, housing depreciation rate and local land …
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and the 1940 U.S. Census to explore whether fetal and early childhood exposure to stress caused by hurricanes affects …
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parenting behavior? Can emergency childcare policies during a pandemic mitigate increases in parental stress and negative …
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mental and physical health of the population creates psychological stress. Focusing on the bellwether indicators of economic …. Stress is the biological reaction to external stimuli that threatens the self-preservation instinct of a human organism. The … stress was generated by debilitating poverty, financial insecurity, by the highest level of inequality among rich countries …
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Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited …
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