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Getting warmer : fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being
Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021
fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong … deprivation indicators as well as in the case of self-reported generic measures of physical health. Lifestyle and chronic health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597703
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COVID-19, lockdowns and well-being : evidence from Google trends
Brodeur, Abel; Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; … - 2020
sadness, while searches for stress, suicide and divorce on the contrary fell. Our results suggest that people's mental health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221742
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Parental gender stereotypes and student wellbeing in China
Chu, Shuai; Zeng, Xiangquan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect student's educational performance, who are challenged by parental expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are strongly more depressed, feeling blue, unhappy, not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316309
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The perceived well-being and health costs of exiting self-employment
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris; Popova, Olga - 2020
We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i … physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are largely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208783
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New Zealand's happiness and COVID-19 : a Markov Switching Dynamic Regression Model
Rossouw, Stephanie; Greyling, Talita; Adhikari, Tamanna - 2021
Happiness levels (states) are volatile and often fluctuate between a happy and unhappy state from one day to the next. The reasons for these shifts are mostly unobservable and not predictable. In this paper, we fit a Marko Switching Dynamic Regression Model (MSDR) to better understand the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012512277
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A tale of three countries : how did Covid-19 lockdown impact happiness?
Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanie; Adhikari, Tamanna - 2020
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, many governments have implemented lockdown regulations to curb the spread of the virus. Though lockdowns do minimise the physical damage of the virus, there may be substantial damage to population well-being. Using a pooled dataset, this paper analyses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239328
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Happiness-lost : did governments make the rightdecisions to combat Covid-19?
Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanie; Adhikari, Tamanna - 2020
Amidst the rapid global spread of Covid-19, many governments enforced country-wide lockdowns, with likely severe well-being consequences. The actions by governments triggered a debate on whether the well-being and economic costs of a lockdown surpass the benefits perceived from a lower infection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221861
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Markov switching models for happiness during apandemic : the New-Zealand experience
Rossouw, Stephanie; Greyling, Talita; Adhikari, Tamanna; … - 2020
the Covid-19 global health pandemic. This helps us understand the dynamics of happiness due to an external shock and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225688
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Delving into the eye of the cyclone to quantify the cascading impacts of natural disasters on life satisfaction
Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis - 2024
residences, significantly reduce overall life satisfaction and specific domains like community, personal safety, and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580648
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110427