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Lockdowns, Loneliness and Life Satisfaction

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2020

Using the 2012-13 American Time Use Survey, I find that both who people spend time with and how they spend it affect their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases most with additional time spent with spouse. Among...

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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/10012217730

COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends

Brodeur, Abel; Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, 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/10012269882

Trust in the Time of Corona

Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T.N.; Justino, Patricia; … - 2020

not just public health and the economy but also societies. We focus on one pillar of society—trust—and explore how trust … personal health or the health of loved ones, but rather by increased levels of worry and stress. Our findings suggest that the … effects of the pandemic go well beyond immediate health concerns, leading to important normative changes that are likely to …

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Antidepressants for Economists and Business-School Researchers: An Introduction and Review

Katolik, Aleksandra; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017

The antidepressant pill is an important modern commodity. Its growing role in the world has been largely ignored by researchers in economics departments and business schools. Scholars may be unaware how many citizens and employees now take these pills. Here we review some of the social-science...

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Antidepressants and age

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2011

Antidepressants as a commodity have been remarkably little-studied by economists. This study shows in new data for 27 European countries that 8% of people (and 10% of those middle-aged) take antidepressants each year. The probability of antidepressant use is greatest among those who are...

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Trust in the time of corona

Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T. N.; Justino, Patricia; … - 2020

not just public health and the economy but also societies. We focus on one pillar of society - trust - and explore how … concerns about personal health or the health of loved ones, but rather by increased levels of worry and stress. Our findings … suggest that the effects of the pandemic go well beyond immediate health concerns, leading to important normative changes that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239442

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

Antidepressants for economists and business-school researchers : an introduction and review

Katolik, Aleksandra; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724546

Female suicide and the concept of the midlife crisis

Oswald, Andrew J.; Tohamy, Ahmed - 2017

The idea that humans - especially females - are prone to some form of 'midlife crisis' has typically been viewed with extreme skepticism by social scientists. We point out the potential equivalence between an age U-shape in a new well-being literature and a matching hill-shape in especially...

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