Depression affects the way that people process information and make decisions, including those involving risk and … preference measures and a theoretical framework that accounts for the multiple pathways through which depression affects risk …-taking. We find no disparity in the behavioral risk preferences of the mentally well vs. depressed; yet depression is related to …

.5 and risk of hospital admissions (HAs) for MDs in Beijing and measure the attributable risk and economic cost. We apply a … burden of MDs. Specifically, a 10 µg/m3 daily increase in PM2.5 is associated with a 3.55% increase in the risk of HAs for …

This paper studies the causal impacts of vaccine eligibility on social distancing behaviors (risk compensation). We … from credit card and airline companies as well as survey data. We find no evidence of risk compensation although vaccine …

The perception of risk affects how people behave during crises. We conduct a series of experiments to explore how … people form COVID-19 mortality risk beliefs and the implications for prosocial behavior. We first document that people … overestimate their own risk and that of young people, while underestimating the risk old people face. We show that the availability …

-in-difference (DD) regressions to estimate the effect of the Medicaid expansion on anxiety and depression associated with job loss …

is strongly associated with negative affect (anxiety, depression, worry and a lack of interest in things). The effect is …

and beyond. In this paper, we analyze the impact of prenatal stress on cognitive and non-cognitive development of the … in-utero to maternal stress do not have different birth-weight relative to those who were not exposed, yet by age 2 … exposed to in utero stress. We also find that the negative impacts are observed if in-utero stress occurs during the first …

standing) and stress, do not refer to risk taking at all. We present four strands of research that lend support to our …A perception at the core of studies that consider the link between social rank and stress (typically measured by the so …-called stress hormone cortisol) is that the link is direct. Examples of such studies are Bartolomucci (2007), Beery and Kaufer (2015 …