Purpose This study investigates the determinants of teleworking before and during COVID-
19 in Canada. It explores the extent of telework adoption across industrial sectors, as well as …

Evidence suggests an association between unemployment and general cognitive ability.
Factors such as changes in environmental stimulation and the effects of stress may act as …

Governments have taken remarkable measures during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in their
efforts to safeguard citizens' health and the economy. As a consequence, public debts have …

Using data from a longitudinal survey representative of the Dutch population, we analyze the
relationship between saving and locus of control, and we study the underlying mechanisms …

Previous work has shown that preferences are not always stable across time, but
surprisingly little is known about the reasons for this instability. I examine whether variation …

Older individuals hold a disproportionate amount of total wealth, and are particularly
vulnerable to shocks to health. Accordingly, there is a interest in understanding the extent to …

This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals experience the major life
event of becoming a parent by using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample …

This paper investigates the impact of exogenous changes in the economic environment on
individuals' risk attitudes. We combine data on media coverage of economic news with …

Risk taking is a ubiquitous but, at the same time, controversial phenomenon in human life. In
the popular mind–as The Economist noted some years ago 1–it is associated with gamblers …

This paper presents evidence suggesting men's (but not women's) risk and time preferences
have systematically become sensitive to local economic conditions since the global financial …