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Helliwell, John F. - 2010

This paper uses data from global and Canadian surveys data to estimate the powerful linkages between social connections, their related social identities, and subjective well-being. Our explanatory variables include several measures of the extent and frequency of use of social networks, combined...

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Trust and Well-being

Helliwell, John F. - 2010

differences in trust levels among individuals. New experimental data from Canada show that wallets are far more likely to be …

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Well-being and Trust in the Workplace

Helliwell, John F. - 2008

This paper summarizes and extends our recent work using life satisfaction regressions to estimate the relative values of financial and non-financial job characteristics. The well-being results show strikingly large values for non-financial job characteristics, especially workplace trust and...

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Do Disaster Experience and Knowledge Affect Insurance Take-up Decisions?

Cai, Jing - 2016

This study examines the effect of experience and knowledge on weather insurance adoption. First, we conduct insurance …

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Financial Literacy, Information, and Demand Elasticity : Survey and Experimental Evidence from Mexico

Hastings, Justine S. - 2008

We use responses to a survey and experiment with participants in Mexico's privatized social security system to examine how financial literacy impacts workers' choice behavior and how simplifying information on management fees may increase measures of price elasticity sensitivity among the...

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Financial Literacy : An Essential Tool for Informed Consumer Choice?

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2008

Increasingly, individuals are in charge of their own financial security and are confronted with ever more complex financial instruments. However, there is evidence that many individuals are not well-equipped to make sound saving decisions. This paper demonstrates widespread financial illiteracy...

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More Trusting, Less Trust? An Investigation of Early E-Commerce in China

Cai, Hongbin - 2013

Trust is vital for market development, but how can trust be enhanced in a marketplace? A common view is that more trusting may help to build trust, especially in less developed economies. In this paper, we argue that more trusting may lead to less trust. We set up a rational expectation model in...

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Real Effects of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis : Is it a Demand or a Finance Shock?

Tong, Hui - 2008

reducing consumer confidence and consumer demand? Is there also a supply-side channel through a tightened liquidity constraint … consumer confidence, based on its response to the 9/11 shock in 2001. We then construct a separate firm-level index on … important than reduced consumer confidence or spending in explaining cross-firm differences in stock price declines …

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Can Financial Incentives Help People Trying to Establish New Habits? Experimental Evidence with New Gym Members

Carrera, Mariana - 2017

We conducted a randomized controlled trial testing the effect of modest incentives to attend the gym among new members of a fitness facility, a population that is already engaged in trying to change a health behavior. Our experiment randomized 836 new members of a private gym into a control...

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Learning, Confidence, and Business Cycles

Ilut, Cosmin L. - 2016

firms invest and hire less. The higher uncertainty reduces agents' confidence and further discourages economic activity. We …

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