Michelle Escobar Carías

Longitudinal maternal depression and child mental health from pregnancy to child age 7: a study of three life course frameworks

Allison Frost, Kaitlin Shartle, Michelle Escobar Carías, Sarah C. Haight et autres

PURPOSE: Maternal depression is associated with mental health difficulties in children, but it is unclear how the timing or duration of depressive symptoms impact child outcomes. This study tested three life course frameworks in the longitudinal association between maternal depression and child …

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A wake-up call for a global climate and sleep task force

Kelton Minor, Christine Blume, Aric Prather, Michelle Escobar Carías et autres

The nighttime ambient environment in which humanity sleeps is heating up due to human-induced climatic change. Convergent global observational evidence links higher ambient temperatures to accelerated sleep impacts within-individuals, while in-lab evidence confirms that high temperatures mechanistically harm sleep initiation and maintenance. …

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The gender gap in children’s educational time investments in informal settlements

Michelle Escobar Carías, Nicole M. Paradise Black, David W. Johnston, Rohan Sweeney et autres

Abstract We document gender differences in children’s time investments in education, unpaid labour, and leisure in an understudied population of children living in urban informal settlements in Indonesia and Fiji. Using within-settlement and within-sibling comparisons, we find that boys spend significantly less …

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Temperature’s Toll on Decision-Making

Michelle Escobar Carías, David W. Johnston, Rachel J. Knott, Rohan Sweeney

Abstract Does temperature affect decision-making abilities and rationality? Using Indonesian data, we estimate how risky choices, impatience and rational choice violations vary with exposure to temperature. We show that hot weather temporarily increases rational choice violations and impatience, but does not affect …

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Maternal Mental Health Responses to COVID-19 Shocks and Uncertainty in Rural Pakistan

Michelle Escobar Carías, Victoria Baranov, Joanna Maselko, Pietro Biroli et autres

In this paper, we investigate the association between a battery of mental health measures and experienced morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19, worry about disease risk, experienced economic shocks, and economic uncertainty about the future. We find that an environment of heightened …

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Flood Disasters and Health Among the Urban Poor

Michelle Escobar Carías, David W. Johnston, Rachel J. Knott, Rohan Sweeney

Billions of people live in urban poverty, with many forced to reside in disaster-prone areas. Research suggests that such disasters harm child nutrition and increase adult morbidity. However, little is known about impacts on mental health, particularly of people living in slums. …

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Heat and Economic Preferences

Michelle Escobar Carías, David W. Johnston, Rachel J. Knott, Rohan Sweeney

The empirical evidence suggests that key accumulation decisions and risky choices associated with economic development depend, at least in part, on economic preferences such as willingness to take risk and patience. This paper studies whether temperature could be one of the potential …

The Effects of Temperature on Economic Preferences

Michelle Escobar Carías, David W. Johnston, Rachel J. Knott, Rohan Sweeney

The empirical evidence suggests that key accumulation decisions and risky choices associated with economic development depend, at least in part, on economic preferences such as willingness to take risk and patience. This paper studies whether temperature could be one of the potential …