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ready-to-use indexes of human mobility spanning 131 countries and territories and 818 sub-national regions across a time … period between 16 February 2020 to 29 March 2020. We extract these data from Google's newly released mobility reports, which … cover phone-tracking-based changes in mobility across several types of locations, including retail and recreation, grocery …
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attitudes. We explore human mobility patterns as a measure of behavioural responses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results … indicate a strong negative relationship between mobility reduction and risk-taking preferences. We find that the sharp decline … behavioural adjustment, measured as the effect of mobility change after the first recorded death in the country, is sharper when …
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The ambiguous phenomenon of corruption has long been the cause of great theoretical debate in economics. By using Structural Equation Modelling, with the two types of corruption as a latent variable, this paper employs causal and indicative variables specific to the Latin American region to test...
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The paper investigates empirically the differences in preferences towards protection of the environment. Using seven different dependent variables to focus on the impact of age, gender and children we use a large micro data set covering data from 33 Western and Eastern European countries. The...
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As the severity and frequency of natural disasters become more pronounced with climate change and the increased habitation of at-risk areas, it is important to understand people's resilience to them. We quantify resilience by estimating how natural disasters in the US impacted individual...
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