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Individual subjective well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic
Trinh Quang Long - 2021
) and nonfinancial effects (represented by experiencing negative nonfinancial effects including mental health issues and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518205
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Neighbors Can Make You Sick : Hygiene, Sanitation and Health
Murugesan, Anand; Rahman, Tauhidur; Dayal, Vikram - 2014
While the first order effects of access to clean water and of personal hygiene and sanitation on health have been well … reciprocal externalities (Dasgupta, 1993), we present a simple model of health externalities of households' hygiene and … sanitation, showing how the choices of one household affects ill-health incidences of other households. Then using micro level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014150273
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The impact of COVID-19 on subjective well-being: evidence from Singapore
Cheng, Terence Chai; Kim, Seonghoon; Koh, Kanghyock - 2020
We provide novel evidence on how the COVID-19 global health and economic crisis is affecting overall life satisfaction …-specific satisfaction during the COVID-19 outbreak, except satisfaction with health. These declines coincide with the introduction of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290922
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Quantifying the intangible impact of the olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063244
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The effects of the Affordable Care Act medicaid expansion on subjective well-being
Kim, Seonghoon; Koh, Kanghyock - 2019
This study analyzes the effects of the 2014 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion on the subjective well-being of individuals in the United States. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that the expansion has significantly improved the overall life satisfaction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119022
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Human well-being and in-work benefits : a randomized controlled trial
Dorsett, Richard; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
Many politicians believe they can intervene in the economy to improve people's lives. But can they? In a social experiment carried out in the United Kingdom, extensive in-work support was randomly assigned among 16,000 disadvantaged people. We follow a sub-sample of 3,500 single parents for 5...
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Putting Subjective Well-Being to Use for Ex-Ante Policy Evaluation
Jara, Holguer X. - 2016
Most studies using microsimulation techniques have considered the effect of potential reforms, but only regarding income distribution. However, it has become increasingly recognised, both at the academic and political level, that focusing purely on income provides a limited picture of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978741
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Death and destitution: the global distribution of welfare losses from the COVID-19 pandemic
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Sterck, Olivier; Mahler, … - 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks to quantify and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life as a common metric. We estimate that almost 20 million...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518090
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The Economic Impact of Tariff Eliminations in a U.S.-U.K. Free Trade Agreement : A CGE Model with Worker Displacement
Ferry, Jeff; Narayanan Gopalakrishnan, Badri; Mayoral, … - 2021
On May 5, 2020, the U.S. Trade Representative announced plans to negotiate a free trade agreement with the United Kingdom. We use GTAP to model the economic impacts of this free trade agreement, exclusively focusing on the bilateral tariff elimination. We find that a standard GTAP model leads to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215978
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Putting subjective well-being to use for ex-ante policy evaluation
Jara, H. Xavier; Schokkaert, Erik - 2016
Most studies using microsimulation techniques have considered the effect of potential reforms, but only regarding income distribution. However, it has become increasingly recognised, both at the academic and political level, that focusing purely on income provides a limited picture of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584107