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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

With 1582 respondents from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), this study investigates the heterogeneity in older adults' vulnerability and examines the relationship between vulnerability types, aging attitudes and emotional responses. International Positive and Negative Affect Schedule...

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How did U.S. consumers use their stimulus payments

Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020

Using a large-scale survey of U.S. consumers, we study how the large one-time transfers to individuals from the CARES Act affected their consumption, saving and labor supply decisions. Most respondents report that they primarily saved or paid down debts with their transfers, with only about 15...

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Consumption response to Seoul's COVID-19 shopping coupons: evidence from consumer data

Woo, Seokjin; Aum, Sangmin; Kim, Dohyung; Moon, Heyjin; … - 2021

This study measures the extent to which Seoul's COVID-19 shopping coupon program affects individuals' consumption. Unlike other COVID-19-related transfer programs, the Seoul Metropolitan government provides consumption coupons depending on income. We quantify the causal effect of Seoul's program...

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How has COVID-19 affected the intention to migrate via the backway to Europe and to a neighboring African country? : survey evidence and a salience experiment in The Gambia

Bah, Tijan L.; Batista, Catia; Gubert, Flore; McKenzie, … - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in border closures in many countries and a sharp reduction in overall international mobility. However, this disruption of legal pathways to migration has raised concerns that potential migrants may turn to irregular migration routes as a substitute. We examine...

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Consumption expenditures in Austria & Germany : new evidence based on transactional data

Koeniger, Winfried; Kress, Peter; Lehmann, Jonas - 2024

We analyze the novel transactional card expenditure data for Germany and Austria provided by Fable Data. We describe key features of the data in terms of the coverage of expenditure items, payment channels, and the distribution of expenditures across regions and time. We highlight strengths and...

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Socially optimal mistakes? : debiasing COVID-19 mortality risk perceptions and prosocial behavior

Abel, Martin; Byker, Tanya; Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2020

The perception of risk affects how people behave during crises. We conduct a series of experiments to explore how … heuristic contributes to these biased beliefs. Using information about the actual risk to debias people's own risk perception …

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Healthcare quality and dementia risk

Aravena, José M.; Chen, Xi; Levy, Becca - 2024

Low healthcare quality has been found to predict the development of several illnesses in older adults, while the evidence on dementia is still lacking. This study assesses whether and to what extent experiencing low healthcare quality can be associated with developing dementia in people...

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The compromise effect in action : lessons from a restaurant's menu

Pinger, Pia; Ruhmer-Krell, Isabel; Schumacher, Heiner - 2016

The compromise effect refers to individuals' tendency to choose intermediate options. Its existence has been demonstrated in a large number of hypothetical choice experiments. This paper uses field data from a specialties restaurant to investigate the existence and strength of the compromise...

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Effect of perceptions and behaviour on access to and use of financial service : evidence from South Africa

Annim, Samuel Kobina; Arun, Thankom; Kostov, Philip - 2012

This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b … three estimations support the hypothesis that financial perception has a greater effect on the decision to access and use … behaviour is greater than financial perception when making decisions on the take-up and use of investment financial services. It …

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Public opinion on immigration in Europe : preference versus salience

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2017

There is growing interest among economists in public opinion towards immigration, something that is often seen as the foundation for restrictive immigration policies. Existing studies have focused on the responses to survey questions on whether the individual would prefer more or less...

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