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habitation of at-risk areas, it is important to understand people's resilience to them. We quantify resilience by estimating how … exhibit less resilience. We find no evidence that existing indices of community resilience moderate impacts. Our conclusion is …
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We identify the individual resources that predicted psychological resilience during the COVID-19 lockdown. Using UK … matching respondents on key characteristics, we find that the most important predictor of resilience is non-cognitive skills … income, wealth, cognitive ability, nor social capital predicted resilience. Our findings hold when comparing differences …
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In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT equipments only. By selecting an equivalent number of...
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Understanding how variation in weather and climate conditions impact productivity, performance and learning is of …
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Traffic jams are an important problem both on an individual and on a societal level and much research has been done on trying to explain their emergence. The mainstream approach to road traffic monitoring is based on crowdsourcing roaming GPS devices such as cars or cell phones. These systems...
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Previous evidence indicates trust is an important correlate of compliance with COVID-19 containment policies. However, this conclusion hinges on two crucial assumptions: first, that compliance does not change over time, and second, that mobility or self-reported measures are good proxies for...
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learning model using 191 different audio features embedded within music and use this model to construct a long-run Music …
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platform. Thereby, we leverage recent advances in the causal machine learning literature to estimate the causal effect of sport …
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Personnel economics tends be based on single-firm case studies. Here we examine the personnel practices of nearly 5,000 firms, over a period of 20 years, using detailed matched employer-employee panel data from Portugal. In the spirit of Baker et al. (1994a,b), we consider different dimensions...
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The urgency of the two crises, especially the COVID-19 pandemic, revealed the inadequacy of traditional statistical datasets and models to provide a timely support to the decision-making process in times of volatility. Drawing upon advances in data analytics for public policy and the increasing...
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