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COVID-19, lockdowns and well-being : evidence from Google trends
Brodeur, Abel; Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; … - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has led many governments to implement lockdowns. While lockdowns may help to contain the spread of the virus, they may result in substantial damage to population well-being. We use Google Trends data to test whether the lockdowns implemented in Europe and America led to...
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Children, unhappiness and family finances
Blanchflower, David G.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2020 - This version: May 12th 2020
The common finding of a zero or negative correlation between the presence of children and parental well-being continues to generate research interest. We here consider international data, including well over one million observations on Europeans from eleven years of Eurobarometer surveys, and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222035
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Americans' responses to terrorism and mass-shooting : evidence from the American Time Use Survey and Well-Being module
Clark, Andrew E.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2017
A small but significant literature concludes that terrorism impacts the economy, although the impact of mass-shooting has not yet been addressed by economists. We compare the economic effects of two tragedies: the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing and the 2012 Sandy Hook School Shooting. Fatal...
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The long-lasting effects of family and childhood on adult wellbeing : evidence from British cohort data
Fleche, Sarah; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2018 - This version: February 2018
adult outcomes, including life satisfaction. We find that the effects of many aspects of childhood do not fade away over … adult life satisfaction at all ages. Of these, emotional health is the strongest. Childhood cognitive performance is more … important than good conduct in explaining adult life satisfaction in the earlier NCDS cohort, whereas this ranking is inverted …
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