Professionally managed portfolios and ongoing advice can potentially help defined contribution (DC) participants achieve better retirement outcomes through personalized investing and saving guidance. This paper explores the relationship between trading activity and advice seeking among five...

Lack of information about COVID-19 and its spread may have contributed to excess mortality at the pandemic's onset. In April and May 2020, we implemented a randomized controlled trial with more than 3,000 households in 150 Bangladeshi villages. Our one-to-one information campaign via phone...

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on individuals, insights from the social and behavioural sciences can be used to help align human behavior with the...

Working from home has brought a number of changes in the lives, habits and ways of working of many employees. The article analyzes some of these changes starting from a survey conducted at the end of 2020 on a national sample of 554 subjects. The results were grouped on several major topics:...

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be exceptionally challenging for health care worldwide. Media and politicians currently pay attention to the ethical dilemma of distributing a prospective and potentially scarce COVID-19 vaccine. Meanwhile, physicians in intensive care units that are running...

In response to the pandemic of COVID-19 and in lack of pharmaceutical solutions, many countries have introduced social and physical distancing regulations to contain the transmission of the virus. These measures are effective insofar as they are able to quickly change people’s habits. This is...

Socially responsible behavior is crucial for slowing the spread of infectious diseases. However, economic and epidemiological models of disease transmission abstract from prosocial motivations as a driver of behaviors that impact the health of others. In an incentivized study, we show that a...

We survey the literature in economics and related fields on the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and conflict behavior. We cover the effects of the pandemic on micro-level conflict (among individuals), macro-level conflict (interstate, intrastate, and extra-state), and the effect of...

We investigate the relationship between political attitudes and prosociality in a survey of a representative sample of the U.S. population during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that an experimental measure of prosociality correlates positively with adherence to protective...

The goal of this study is to look at the elements that influence employee job satisfaction and work-from-home performance during the Bangkok lockdown. This study's chosen topics are job satisfaction and job performance. This study's conceptual framework is based on prior literature's theoretical...