Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Psychological, social and cognitive resources and the mental wellbeing of the poor
Published 2021Our study takes advantage of unique data to quantify deficits in the psychosocial and cognitive resources of an extremely vulnerable subpopulation–those experiencing housing vulnerability–in an advanced, high-income country ...Article -
COVID-19, social isolation and the mental health of autistic people and their families: A qualitative study.
Published 2021LAY ABSTRACT: In this study, we show that autistic people and their families have found it very difficult to deal with the lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Autistic and non-autistic researchers spoke to 144 people, ...Article -
Debt and financial market contagion
Published 2021We empirically investigate why financial crises spread from one country to another. For our analysis, we develop a new multiple-channel test of financial market contagion and construct indices of crisis severity in equity ...Open AccessArticle -
Age, Industry, and Unemployment Risk During a Pandemic Lockdown
Published 2021This paper models the macroeconomic and distributional consequences of lockdown shocks during the COVID-19 pandemic. The model features heterogeneous life-cycle households, labor market search and matching frictions, and ...Article -
An Experimental Comparison of Risky and Riskless Choice—Limitations of Prospect Theory and Expected Utility Theory
Published 2019Prospect theory, used descriptively for decisions under both risk and certainty, presumes concave utility over gains and convex utility over losses; a pattern widely seen in lottery tasks. Although such discontinuous ...Open AccessArticle