TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Clark, Andrew E.
AU  - Stancanelli, Elena G. F.
        TI  - Individual Well-Being and the Allocation of Time Before and After the Boston Marathon Terrorist Bombing
        PY  - 2016/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9882
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9882
        AB  - There is a small literature on the economic costs of terrorism. We consider the effects of the Boston marathon bombing on Americans' well-being and time allocation. We exploit data from the American Time Use Survey and Well-Being Module in the days around the terrorist attack to implement a regression-discontinuity design. The bombing led to a significant and large drop of about 1.5 points in well-being, on a scale of one to six, for residents of the States close to Boston. The happiness of American women also dropped significantly, by almost a point, regardless of the State of residence. Labor supply and other time use were not significantly affected. We find no well-being effect of the Sandy Hook shootings, suggesting that terrorism is different in nature from other violent deaths.
        KW  - well-being
KW  - time use
KW  - Terrorism
        ER  -