Beatrice D’hombres
Biographic Data
| ID | 391042 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beatrice D’hombres |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beatrice |
| FAMILY NAME | D’hombres |
| SIGNATURE | D’HOMBRES B |
| AFFILIATIONS | European Commission |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5122-5224 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Social media use, loneliness and emotional distress among young people in Europe
The rapid rise of social media has transformed communication, raising concerns about its association with mental health and well-being. This study investigates the link between social media usage, loneliness, and emotional distress among young people in Europe. We draw on the 2022 Loneliness Survey, the first EU-wide individual-level survey with detailed information on social media usage time and patterns, along with a comprehensive set of socio-…
Loneliness in Europe: Determinants, Risks and Interventions
Risk factors for loneliness: A literature review
RATIONALE: Increasingly, loneliness is being recognised as a serious problem with detrimental effects on health, as well as on social cohesion and community trust. To effectively tackle this complex issue, a clear understanding of the phenomenon and its main drivers is needed. Over years of scientific research on loneliness, many potential risk factors have emerged and been tested empirically. OBJECTIVE: This narrative review of 109 studies provi…
What makes cities happy? Factors contributing to life satisfaction in European cities
The purpose of this study is to identify the main factors of city life satisfaction across Europe. Data come from the recent fifth survey on quality of life in European cities and cover 83 cities located in the European Union, the European Free Trade Association countries, the United Kingdom, the Western Balkan Region and Turkey. In addition to running classical econometric analysis, we quantify the relative importance of the various determinants…
Loneliness in Europe before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study is to examine the prevalence of loneliness in Europe in 2016 and during the first months - April-July 2020 - of the COVID-19 pandemic, and to assess whether the risk factors associated with loneliness have changed after the outbreak of the pandemic. METHOD: The analysis is based on two cross-country surveys, namely the 2016 European Quality of Life Survey and the 2020 Living, Working and COVID-19 Online Survey.…
International mobility of students in Italy and the UK: Does it pay off and for whom
More and more European higher education students decide to take part in international student mobility (ISM). However, not much is known about the actual benefits of studying abroad. This paper assesses UK and Italian students’ returns from ISM. Three research questions are addressed. First, does international student mobility increase graduates’ employment probability and postgraduate study uptake? Second, do the returns to ISM differ according …
Analysing domestic tourism flows at the provincial level in Spain by using spatial gravity models
Domestic tourism represents a large share of the total tourism volume in Spain, but it is still an under‐researched topic. This study focuses on the determinants of domestic flows in Spain at provincial level. The prior assumption is that domestic tourism demand may be affected by specific local conditions that previous studies, mostly based on more aggregate data, would hardly capture. A gravity model and various spatial econometric models are e…
Pictorial health warnings and wear-out effects: Evidence from a web experiment in 10 European countries
These findings strengthen the evidence that pictorial health warnings are an effective tool for tobacco control policies and suggest that, even in the presence of a general wear-out effect among smokers, periodically introducing new pictures helps to maintain warning effectiveness over time
Rickety numbers: Volatility of university rankings and policy implications
The influence of social capital on health in eight former Soviet countries: Why does it differ
BACKGROUND: Previous research has identified the role of social capital in explaining variations in health in the countries of the former Soviet Union. This study explores whether the benefits of social capital vary among these countries and why. METHODS: The impact of micro social capital (trust, membership and social isolation) on individual health was estimated in each of eight former Soviet republics using instrumental variables to overcome m…
Does social capital determine health? Evidence from eight transition countries
There is growing interest in the role of social relationships in explaining patterns of health. We contribute to this debate by investigating the impact of social capital on self‐reported health for eight countries from the Commonwealth of Independent States. We rely on three indicators of social capital at the individual level (trust, participation in local organisations, social isolation) and employ alternative procedures to estimate consistent…
Indicators for European Union Policies. Business as Usual
Does body weight affect wages
Rendement de l'éducation et choix des instruments: Application sur données vietnamiennes
L’objet de cet article est d’estimer sans biais les rendements de l’éducation au Viêtnam. Pour ce faire, nous employons différents instruments basés sur des variations dans la demande d’éducation et l’offre d’éducation. Par ailleurs, nous faisons également usage de la matrice d’instruments proposée par Hausman et Taylor [1981]. La correction du biais d’endogénéité conduit à des rendements de l’éducation plus élevés que ceux obtenus en mco. Nous m…
Indicators for European Union Policies. Business as Usual
What makes cities happy? Factors contributing to life satisfaction in European cities
The purpose of this study is to identify the main factors of city life satisfaction across Europe. Data come from the recent fifth survey on quality of life in European cities and cover 83 cities located in the European Union, the European Free Trade Association countries, the United Kingdom, the Western Balkan Region and Turkey. In addition to running classical econometric analysis, we quantify the relative importance of the various determinants…
The influence of social capital on health in eight former Soviet countries: Why does it differ
BACKGROUND: Previous research has identified the role of social capital in explaining variations in health in the countries of the former Soviet Union. This study explores whether the benefits of social capital vary among these countries and why. METHODS: The impact of micro social capital (trust, membership and social isolation) on individual health was estimated in each of eight former Soviet republics using instrumental variables to overcome m…
Rendement de l'éducation et choix des instruments: Application sur données vietnamiennes
L’objet de cet article est d’estimer sans biais les rendements de l’éducation au Viêtnam. Pour ce faire, nous employons différents instruments basés sur des variations dans la demande d’éducation et l’offre d’éducation. Par ailleurs, nous faisons également usage de la matrice d’instruments proposée par Hausman et Taylor [1981]. La correction du biais d’endogénéité conduit à des rendements de l’éducation plus élevés que ceux obtenus en mco. Nous m…
Does body weight affect wages
Does social capital determine health? Evidence from eight transition countries
There is growing interest in the role of social relationships in explaining patterns of health. We contribute to this debate by investigating the impact of social capital on self‐reported health for eight countries from the Commonwealth of Independent States. We rely on three indicators of social capital at the individual level (trust, participation in local organisations, social isolation) and employ alternative procedures to estimate consistent…
Indicators for European Union Policies. Business as Usual
Rickety numbers: Volatility of university rankings and policy implications
The influence of social capital on health in eight former Soviet countries: Why does it differ
BACKGROUND: Previous research has identified the role of social capital in explaining variations in health in the countries of the former Soviet Union. This study explores whether the benefits of social capital vary among these countries and why. METHODS: The impact of micro social capital (trust, membership and social isolation) on individual health was estimated in each of eight former Soviet republics using instrumental variables to overcome m…
Pictorial health warnings and wear-out effects: Evidence from a web experiment in 10 European countries
These findings strengthen the evidence that pictorial health warnings are an effective tool for tobacco control policies and suggest that, even in the presence of a general wear-out effect among smokers, periodically introducing new pictures helps to maintain warning effectiveness over time
Analysing domestic tourism flows at the provincial level in Spain by using spatial gravity models
Domestic tourism represents a large share of the total tourism volume in Spain, but it is still an under‐researched topic. This study focuses on the determinants of domestic flows in Spain at provincial level. The prior assumption is that domestic tourism demand may be affected by specific local conditions that previous studies, mostly based on more aggregate data, would hardly capture. A gravity model and various spatial econometric models are e…
International mobility of students in Italy and the UK: Does it pay off and for whom
More and more European higher education students decide to take part in international student mobility (ISM). However, not much is known about the actual benefits of studying abroad. This paper assesses UK and Italian students’ returns from ISM. Three research questions are addressed. First, does international student mobility increase graduates’ employment probability and postgraduate study uptake? Second, do the returns to ISM differ according …
Loneliness in Europe before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study is to examine the prevalence of loneliness in Europe in 2016 and during the first months - April-July 2020 - of the COVID-19 pandemic, and to assess whether the risk factors associated with loneliness have changed after the outbreak of the pandemic. METHOD: The analysis is based on two cross-country surveys, namely the 2016 European Quality of Life Survey and the 2020 Living, Working and COVID-19 Online Survey.…
Risk factors for loneliness: A literature review
RATIONALE: Increasingly, loneliness is being recognised as a serious problem with detrimental effects on health, as well as on social cohesion and community trust. To effectively tackle this complex issue, a clear understanding of the phenomenon and its main drivers is needed. Over years of scientific research on loneliness, many potential risk factors have emerged and been tested empirically. OBJECTIVE: This narrative review of 109 studies provi…
What makes cities happy? Factors contributing to life satisfaction in European cities
The purpose of this study is to identify the main factors of city life satisfaction across Europe. Data come from the recent fifth survey on quality of life in European cities and cover 83 cities located in the European Union, the European Free Trade Association countries, the United Kingdom, the Western Balkan Region and Turkey. In addition to running classical econometric analysis, we quantify the relative importance of the various determinants…
Loneliness in Europe: Determinants, Risks and Interventions
Social media use, loneliness and emotional distress among young people in Europe
The rapid rise of social media has transformed communication, raising concerns about its association with mental health and well-being. This study investigates the link between social media usage, loneliness, and emotional distress among young people in Europe. We draw on the 2022 Loneliness Survey, the first EU-wide individual-level survey with detailed information on social media usage time and patterns, along with a comprehensive set of socio-…
Economics (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Econometrics (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (4 works) · Loneliness (4 works) · Medicine (4 works)