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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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Versorgungspolitische und gesundheitsökonomische Aspekte zum Regulierungsstatus homöopathischer Arzneimittel
Bauer, Cosima; Giulini-Limbach, Chiara; May, Uwe; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012592011
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Behavioral nudges prevent student dropouts in the pandemic
Lichand, Guilherme; Christen, Julien - 2021
School closures in the context of COVID-19 have been shown to magnify that problem, with at least seven million additional dropouts worldwide in 2020. Despite efforts from governments around the world to mitigate learning gaps by the time in-person classes return, interventions to motivate...
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Domestic and global economic effects of COVID-19 containment measures: How does Russia compare internationally?
Simola, Heli; Solanko, Laura - 2020
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Graphing and measuring Covid's first wave impact on the Bolivian economy
Barja Daza, Gover - 2021
The Bolivian monthly index of economic activity along with ARMA models are used in an attempt to graph and measure the impact of Covid's pandemic on the Bolivian economy. The accumulated difference between the observed and counterfactual values show an overall 12.6% loss of economic activity in...
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Lockdowns and the US unemployment crisis
Dreger, Christian; Gros, Daniel - 2021
We analyse the short-term impact of social distancing measures on the US labour market, using a panel threshold model with high frequency (weekly) data on unemployment across US states. We find that changes in the restrictiveness of mandated social distancing, as measured by the Oxford...
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The fiscal and welfare effects of policy responses to the Covid-19 school closures
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Krueger, Dirk; Kurmann, André; … - 2021
Using a structural life-cycle model and data on school visits from Safegraph and school closures from Burbio, we quantify the heterogeneous impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental...
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Consumer behaviour during crises: Preliminary research on how coronavirus has manifested consumer panic buying, herd mentality, changing discretionary spending and the role of the...
Loxton, Mary; Truskett, Robert; Scarf, Brigitte; … - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 13 (2020) 8, pp. 1-21
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic spread globally from its outbreak in China in early 2020, negatively …
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A structural model of coronavirus behaviour: What do four waves of Covid tell us?
Meenagh, David; Minford, Patrick - 2022
This paper extends Meenagh and Minford (2021) to the four waves of infection in the UK by end-2021, using the unique newly available sample-based estimates of infections created by the ONS. These allow us to estimate the e§ects on the Covid hospitalisation and fatality rates of vaccination and...
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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. First Volume
Recchia, Virginia - 1999
Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies … plant of petroleum products. The method used for the analysis foresees a review of the main findings about risk perception …
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