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When fairness is not enough : the disproportionate contributions of the poor in a collective action problem

Malthouse, Eugene; Pilgrim, Charlie; Hills, Thomas; … - 2023

Many of our most pressing challenges, from combating climate change to dealing with pandemics, are collective action problems: situations in which individual and collective interests conflict with each other. In such situations people face a dilemma about making individually costly but...

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The meaning of failed replications : a review and proposal

Clemens, Michael A. - 2015

The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...

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The analysis of human feelings: a practical suggestion for a robustness test

Bloem, Jerey R.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021

Governments, multinational companies, and researchers today collect unprecedented amounts of data on human feelings. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental stress, societal trust, and other important variables. Yet...

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Vulnerability to poverty : Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis

Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John S.; … - 2016

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …

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Deconstructing informality : a response to vulnerability or an optimal choice?

Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon; Liang, Zhe - 2016

The rapid growth of informal employment in China in recent decades has attracted attention, but to understand its implications, the concept of informality must be deconstructed. We reclassify employment status into three categories: salaried workers who have long-term contracts; the self-employed;...

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Climate vulnerability, communities' resilience and child labour

Boutin, Delphine - 2014

This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and … intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and … that climate vulnerability negatively affects child labour incidence and intensity, while has no significant impact on …

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COVID-19, race, and redlining

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020

Discussion on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on African Americans has been at center stage since the outbreak of the epidemic in the United States. To present day, however, lack of race-disaggregated individual data has prevented a rigorous assessment of the extent of this phenomenon...

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Health and nody mass index : no simple relationship

Hübler, Olaf - 2017

Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a number of methodological issues and relevant influences on health. This paper investigates empirically whether neglecting these items leads to systematically different estimates....

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Life satisfaction, subjective wealth, and adaptation to vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya; Lokshin, Michael - 2020

We offer the first study on vulnerability adaptation to subjective well-being, using rich panel data over the past two … decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … vulnerability spells being associated with more negative subjective welfare. Similar results hold for other outcomes including …

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American older adults in the time of COVID-19 : vulnerability types, aging attitudes, and emotional responses

Fu, Mingqi; Guo, Jing; Chen, Xi; Han, Boxun; Ahmed, Farooq - 2022

adults' vulnerability and examines the relationship between vulnerability types, aging attitudes and emotional responses …' vulnerability. Latent class analysis was used to explore the vulnerability types, and weighted linear regressions examined the … relationship between vulnerability, aging attitudes and emotional responses. Results showed that the proportion for individuals …

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