Nicolas L. Bottan

TL;DR: Evidence that the current public health crisis will exacerbate economic inequality is provided and some of the first estimates of the impact of the pandemic on the labor market and well-being in developing countries are provided.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed an additional adaptation channel: current happiness may depend directly on past happiness, which amounts to assessing whether happiness is autoregressive, and run dynamic happiness regressions using individual-level panel data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study, the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers, the British Household Panel Survey and the Swiss Household Panel.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study how the U.S. Catholic clergy abuse scandals affected religious participation, religious beliefs, and pro-social behavior, and find that a scandal causes a significant and long-lasting decline in religious participation in the zip code where it occurs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study how the US Catholic clergy abuse scandals affected religious participation, religious beliefs, and pro-social behavior and find that the scandals cause a significant and long-lasting decline in religious participation in the zip code where it occurs.

TL;DR: This article used a regression discontinuity design to study the impacts of a non-contributory pension program covering one-third of Bolivian households during the COVID-19 pandemic.