%0 Report
        %A Clark, Andrew E.
%A Stancanelli, Elena G. F.
        %T Individual Well-Being and the Allocation of Time Before and After the Boston Marathon Terrorist Bombing
        %D 2016
        %8 2016 Apr
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 9882
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9882
        %X 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.
        %K well-being
%K time use
%K Terrorism