Developments in methodologies, agglomeration, and a range of applied issues have characterized recent advances in regional and urban studies. Volume 5 concentrates on these developments while treating traditional subjects such as housing, the costs and benefits of cities, and policy issues beyond regional inequalities. Contributors make a habit of combining theory and empirics in each chapter, guiding research amid a trend in applied economics towards structural and quasi-experimental approaches. Clearly distinguished from the New Economic Geography covered by Volume 4, these articles feature an international approach that positions recent advances within the discipline of economics and society at large. * Editors are recognized as leaders and can attract an international list of contributors* Regional and urban studies interest economists in many subdisciplines, such as labor, development, and public economics* Table of contents combines theoretical and applied subjects, ensuring broad appeal to readers

Handbook of regional and urban economics

How do indicators of household food insecurity measure up? An empirical comparison from Ethiopia

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a surge in anxiety across the globe. Much of the public’s behavioural and emotional response to the virus can be understood through the framework of terror management theory, which proposes that fear of death drives much of human behaviour. In the context of the current pandemic, death anxiety, a recently proposed transdiagnostic construct, appears especially relevant. Fear of death has recently been shown to predict not only anxiety related to COVID-19, but also to play a causal role in various mental health conditions. Given this, it is argued that treatment programmes in mental health may need to broaden their focus to directly target the dread of death. Notably, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) has been shown to produce significant reductions in death anxiety. As such, it is possible that complementing current treatments with specific CBT techniques addressing fears of death may ensure enhanced long-term symptom reduction. Further research is essential in order to examine whether treating death anxiety will indeed improve long-term outcomes, and prevent the emergence of future disorders in vulnerable populations.

Key learning aims



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To understand terror management theory and its theoretical explanation of death anxiety in the context of COVID-19.


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To understand the transdiagnostic role of death anxiety in mental health disorders.


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To understand current treatment approaches for directly targeting death anxiety, and the importance of doing so to improve long-term treatment outcomes.

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Death anxiety in the time of COVID-19: theoretical explanations and clinical implications

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Contributions to the Theory of Rank Order Statistics--The Two Sample Case

The use of social media in nutrition interventions for adolescents and young adults-A systematic review.

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/111538/1/dp9087.pdf

Peer effects, fast food consumption and adolescent weight gain

https://socialsciences.uottawa.ca/economics/sites/socialsciences.uottawa.ca.economics/files/1208e.pdf

Measuring socioeconomic health inequalities in presence of multiple categorical information

Decomposing health achievement and socioeconomic health inequalities in presence of multiple categorical information

https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:685388/UQ685388_OA.pdf

Income-related health transfers principles and orderings of joint distributions of income and health.

This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these effects partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are assumed to interact through a friendship social network. We first propose a social interaction model of fast food consumption using a generalized spatial autoregressive approach. We exploit results by Bramoulle, Djebbari and Fortin (2009) which show that intransitive links within a network (i.e., a friend of one of my friends is not my friend) help identify peer effects. The model is estimated using maximum likelihood and generalized 2SLS strategies. We also estimate a panel dynamic weight gain production function relating an adolescent’s Body Mass Index (BMI) to his current fast food consumption and his lagged BMI level. Results show that there are positive significant peer effects in fast food consumption among adolescents belonging to a same friendship school network. The estimated social multiplier is 1.59. Our results also suggest that, at the network level, an extra day of weekly fast food restaurant visits increases BMI by 2.4%, when peer effects are taken into account.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=1759978

Myra Yazbeck

Papers

Peer effects, fast food consumption and adolescent weight gain

Measuring socioeconomic health inequalities in presence of multiple categorical information

Decomposing health achievement and socioeconomic health inequalities in presence of multiple categorical information

Income-related health transfers principles and orderings of joint distributions of income and health.

Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain