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The economic impacts of direct natural disaster exposure
Johar, Meliyanni; Johnston, David; Shields, Michael; … - 2020
This paper studies how having your home damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster impacts on economic and financial outcomes. Our context is Australia, where disasters are frequent. Estimates of regression models with individual, area and time fixed-effects, applied to 10 waves of data...
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How has the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Outdoor Recreation in the U.S.? A Revealed Preference Approach
Landry, Craig E.; Bergstrom, John C.; Salazar, John; … - 2020
This study examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on outdoor recreation visits and values using a unique revealed preference travel cost method approach. Demand models are estimated using data on pre- and post-pandemic visits reported in a nationwide survey of outdoor recreation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014093868
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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...
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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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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 and domain-specific satisfaction using data from a monthly longitudinal survey of middle-aged and older Singaporeans. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we document...
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The interaction between personality and health policy : empirical evidence from the UK smoking bans
Josten, Cecily; Lordan, Grace - 2020
We investigate whether responses to the UK public places smoking ban depend on personality. Drawing on individual level … establish their overall effect on smoking outcomes, and how this differs by personality. We measure personality using the Big … Five personality traits. We are particularly interested in conscientiousness, given the evidence that it is a good proxy …
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COVID-19 spread in Germany from a regional perspective
Hübler, Olaf - 2021
that both regional structural variables and regionally aggregated personality traits are significant for the different …. If personality traits are neglected, the migrants' influence is overestimated. With school education and the risk of …
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Evaluating heterogeneous effects of housing-sector-specific macroprudential policy tools on Belgian house price growth
Coulier, Lara; De Schryder, Selien - International Research Conference on Household … - 2022
drivers of local house price dynamics and examine the potential heterogeneity of housing-related macroprudential policy … furthermore increase in hot housing markets. Our findings shed more light on the geographical heterogeneity of national …
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Transmission channels of the global economic crisis : micro evidence for Macedonia
Jovanovikj, Biljana; Georgievska, Ljupka - In: Journal of contemporary economic and business issues 2 (2015) 1, pp. 5-20
The 2008-2009 global recession, which originated in developed economies, has rapidly spilled over worldwide, hitting different economies with various intensity. The Macedonian economy was not an exception - the export sector suffered heavily, expectations deteriorated and household consumption...
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Does the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affect the poor? : evidence from a six-country survey
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Toan Luu Duc Huynh; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, barely any evidence currently exists on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We provide the first study that offers new theoretical and empirical evidence on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on...
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