Eugenio Proto
Biographic Data
| ID | 1852385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugenio Proto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugenio |
| FAMILY NAME | Proto |
| SIGNATURE | PROTO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7766-6503 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Covid-19 and mental health in China: The effects of personality
BACKGROUND: China was the first country affected by the COVID-19 virus, and it is a very important case to study the effects of the virus and the consequent restrictions. However, national representative studies of how the COVID-19 pandemic affects mental health in China are still limited. METHODS: Using two waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we follow the same individuals before and during the pandemic. We compare weighted means using 95% …
Trends in psychological distress in Great Britain, 1991–2019: Evidence from three representative surveys
BACKGROUND: Previously improving UK mortality trends stalled around 2012, with evidence implicating economic policy as the cause. This paper examines whether trends in psychological distress across three population surveys show similar trends. METHODS: We report the percentages reporting psychological distress (4+ in the 12-item General Health Questionnaire) from Understanding Society (Great Britain, 1991-2019), Scottish Health Survey (SHeS, 1995…
Covid-19 and mental health deterioration by ethnicity and gender in the UK
We use the UK Household Longitudinal Study and compare pre-COVID-19 pandemic (2017-2019) and during-COVID-19 pandemic data (April 2020) for the same group of individuals to assess and quantify changes in mental health as measured by changes in the GHQ-12 (General Health Questionnaire), among ethnic groups in the UK. We confirm the previously documented average deterioration in mental health for the whole sample of individuals interviewed before a…
Author Correction: Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Intelligence, Personality, and Gains from Cooperation in Repeated Interactions
We study how intelligence and personality affect the outcomes of groups, focusing on repeated interactions that provide the opportunity for profitable cooperation. Our experimental method creates two groups of subjects who have different levels of certain traits, such as higher or lower levels of Intelligence, Conscientiousness, and Agreeableness, but who are very similar otherwise. Intelligence has a large and positive long-run effect on coopera…
National Happiness and Genetic Distance: A Cautious Exploration
This paper studies a famous unsolved puzzle in quantitative social science. Why do some nations report such high levels of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries’ happiness; Britain and the US enter further down; some nations do unexpectedly poorly. The explanation for the longobserved ranking -- one that holds after adjustment for GDP and other socioeconomic variables -- is currently unknown. …
Happiness and Productivity
Some firms say they care about the well-being and “happiness” of their employees. But are such claims hype or scientific good sense? We provide evidence, for a classic piece rate setting, that happiness makes people more productive. In three different styles of experiment, randomly selected individuals are made happier. The treated individuals have approximately 12% greater productivity. A fourth experiment studies major real-world shocks (bereav…
Anonymity, Efficiency Wages and Technological Progress
Life satisfaction, income and personality
Smithian Growth through Creative Organization
We model technological progress as an external effect of organizational design, focusing on how factories, based on labor division, could spawn the Industrial Revolution. Dividing labor, as Adam Smith argued, facilitates invention by observers of production processes. However, entrepreneurs cannot internalize this benefit and choose labor division to facilitate monitoring. Equilibrium with few entrepreneurs features low wage shares, and high spec…
Entrepreneurial drain under moral hazard: A high-yield sector curse
Land and the transition from a dual to a modern economy
Intelligence, Personality, and Gains from Cooperation in Repeated Interactions
We study how intelligence and personality affect the outcomes of groups, focusing on repeated interactions that provide the opportunity for profitable cooperation. Our experimental method creates two groups of subjects who have different levels of certain traits, such as higher or lower levels of Intelligence, Conscientiousness, and Agreeableness, but who are very similar otherwise. Intelligence has a large and positive long-run effect on coopera…
Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Life satisfaction, income and personality
Land and the transition from a dual to a modern economy
National Happiness and Genetic Distance: A Cautious Exploration
This paper studies a famous unsolved puzzle in quantitative social science. Why do some nations report such high levels of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries’ happiness; Britain and the US enter further down; some nations do unexpectedly poorly. The explanation for the longobserved ranking -- one that holds after adjustment for GDP and other socioeconomic variables -- is currently unknown. …
Land and the transition from a dual to a modern economy
Entrepreneurial drain under moral hazard: A high-yield sector curse
Smithian Growth through Creative Organization
We model technological progress as an external effect of organizational design, focusing on how factories, based on labor division, could spawn the Industrial Revolution. Dividing labor, as Adam Smith argued, facilitates invention by observers of production processes. However, entrepreneurs cannot internalize this benefit and choose labor division to facilitate monitoring. Equilibrium with few entrepreneurs features low wage shares, and high spec…
Happiness and Productivity
Some firms say they care about the well-being and “happiness” of their employees. But are such claims hype or scientific good sense? We provide evidence, for a classic piece rate setting, that happiness makes people more productive. In three different styles of experiment, randomly selected individuals are made happier. The treated individuals have approximately 12% greater productivity. A fourth experiment studies major real-world shocks (bereav…
Anonymity, Efficiency Wages and Technological Progress
Life satisfaction, income and personality
National Happiness and Genetic Distance: A Cautious Exploration
This paper studies a famous unsolved puzzle in quantitative social science. Why do some nations report such high levels of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries’ happiness; Britain and the US enter further down; some nations do unexpectedly poorly. The explanation for the longobserved ranking -- one that holds after adjustment for GDP and other socioeconomic variables -- is currently unknown. …
Intelligence, Personality, and Gains from Cooperation in Repeated Interactions
We study how intelligence and personality affect the outcomes of groups, focusing on repeated interactions that provide the opportunity for profitable cooperation. Our experimental method creates two groups of subjects who have different levels of certain traits, such as higher or lower levels of Intelligence, Conscientiousness, and Agreeableness, but who are very similar otherwise. Intelligence has a large and positive long-run effect on coopera…
Author Correction: Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Covid-19 and mental health deterioration by ethnicity and gender in the UK
We use the UK Household Longitudinal Study and compare pre-COVID-19 pandemic (2017-2019) and during-COVID-19 pandemic data (April 2020) for the same group of individuals to assess and quantify changes in mental health as measured by changes in the GHQ-12 (General Health Questionnaire), among ethnic groups in the UK. We confirm the previously documented average deterioration in mental health for the whole sample of individuals interviewed before a…
Trends in psychological distress in Great Britain, 1991–2019: Evidence from three representative surveys
BACKGROUND: Previously improving UK mortality trends stalled around 2012, with evidence implicating economic policy as the cause. This paper examines whether trends in psychological distress across three population surveys show similar trends. METHODS: We report the percentages reporting psychological distress (4+ in the 12-item General Health Questionnaire) from Understanding Society (Great Britain, 1991-2019), Scottish Health Survey (SHeS, 1995…
Covid-19 and mental health in China: The effects of personality
BACKGROUND: China was the first country affected by the COVID-19 virus, and it is a very important case to study the effects of the virus and the consequent restrictions. However, national representative studies of how the COVID-19 pandemic affects mental health in China are still limited. METHODS: Using two waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we follow the same individuals before and during the pandemic. We compare weighted means using 95% …
Economics (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Demography (4 works) · Macroeconomics (4 works) · COVID-19 and Mental Health (3 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (3 works) · Happiness (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Market economy (3 works)