Publications by year
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Oreffice S, Quintana-Domeque C (In Press). Gender inequality in COVID-19 times: Evidence from UK Prolific participants.
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2021
Proto E, Quintana-Domeque C (2021). COVID-19 and mental health deterioration by ethnicity and gender in the UK.
PLOS ONE,
16(1), e0244419-e0244419.
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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 and during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, we find that the average increase in mental distress varies by ethnicity and gender. Both women –regardless of their ethnicity– and Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) men experienced a higher average increase in mental distress than White British men, so that the gender gap in mental health increases only among White British individuals. These ethnic-gender specific changes in mental health persist after controlling for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Finally, we find some evidence that, among men, Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani individuals have experienced the highest average increase in mental distress with respect to White British men.
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2020
Chiappori PA, Oreffice S, Quintana-Domeque C (2020). Erratum: Fatter attraction: Anthropometric and socioeconomic matching on the marriage market.
Journal of Political Economy,
128(12), 4673-4675.
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Erratum: Fatter attraction: Anthropometric and socioeconomic matching on the marriage market
© 2020 by the University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Alfred Galichon pointed out to us an error in our paper “Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market” (Chiappori, Oreffice, and Quintana-Domeque 2012). The properties derived in the theory section (sec. III) are not sufficient to validate the empirical strategy developed in the following section; the latter requires more specific assumptions. The issue can easily be described in the TU (transferable-utility) case (sec. III.B).We use the same notation as in the initial paper. In particular, women (men) are characterized by a vector ðX, εÞ RL RK (ðY , hÞ RK RL), where X (Y) is a vector of observable female (male) characteristics and ε (h) is a random vector reflecting female (male) unobservable attributes. Proposition 2 actually implies that, for any stable matching, the conditional distribution of the female index I(X), given the male characteristics Y, depends only on the male index J(Y ), and conversely. This property can be used to empirically estimate these indexes even in the most general framework, a possibility explored in forthcoming work.
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2019
Quintana-Domeque C, Oreffice S, Clarke D (2019). The Demand for Season of Birth.
Journal of Applied Econometrics Full text.
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2018
Chiappori P-A, Oreffice S, Quintana-Domeque C (2018). BIDIMENSIONAL MATCHING WITH HETEROGENEOUS PREFERENCES: EDUCATION AND SMOKING IN THE MARRIAGE MARKET.
JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION,
16(1), 161-198.
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Quintana-Domeque C (2018). Introduction to the special issue in honor of Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton: "consumption, poverty and inequality in the household".
REVIEW OF ECONOMICS OF THE HOUSEHOLD,
16(1), 1-3.
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Hafeez N, Quintana-Domeque C (2018). Son Preference and Gender-Biased Breastfeeding in Pakistan.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURAL CHANGE,
66(2), 179-215.
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Quintana-Domeque C, Carvalho JR, de Oliveira VH (2018). Zika virus incidence, preventive and reproductive behaviors: Correlates from new survey data.
Econ Hum Biol,
30, 14-23.
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Zika virus incidence, preventive and reproductive behaviors: Correlates from new survey data.
During the outbreak of the Zika virus, Brazilian health authorities recommended that pregnant women take meticulous precaution to avoid mosquito bites and that women in general use contraceptive methods to postpone/delay pregnancies. In this article, we present new estimates on the Zika virus incidence, its correlates and preventive behaviors in the Northeast of Brazil, where the outbreak initiated, using survey data collected between March 30th and June 3rd of 2016. The target population were women aged 15-49 in the capital cities of the nine states of the Northeast region of Brazil. We find that more educated women were less likely to report suffering from Zika (or its symptoms) and more likely to report having taken precaution against Zika, such as having used long and light-colored clothes, having used mosquito repellent or insecticides, having used mosquito protective screens or kept windows closed, and having dumped standing water where mosquitoes can breed. In addition, more educated women were more likely to report being informed about the association between Zika and microcephaly and to avoid pregnancy in the last 12 months. Finally, we also find that women who reported experiencing sexual domestic violence in the last 12 months were more likely to report suffering from Zika.
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2017
Quintana-Domeque C, Rodenas-Serrano P (2017). The hidden costs of terrorism: the effects on health at birth.
JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS,
56, 47-60.
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2016
Quintana-Domeque C, Wohlfart J (2016). "Relative concerns for consumption at the top": an intertemporal analysis for the UK.
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION,
129, 172-194.
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Chiappori P-A, Oreffice S, Quintana-Domeque C (2016). BLACK-WHITE MARITAL MATCHING: RACE, ANTHROPOMETRICS, AND SOCIOECONOMICS.
JOURNAL OF DEMOGRAPHIC ECONOMICS,
82(4), 399-421.
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Oreffice S, Quintana-Domeque C (2016). Beauty, body size and wages: Evidence from a unique data set.
Econ Hum Biol,
22, 24-34.
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Beauty, body size and wages: Evidence from a unique data set.
We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview in the German General Social Survey is related to weight, height, and body mass index (BMI), separately by gender and accounting for interviewers' characteristics or fixed effects. We show that height, weight, and BMI all strongly contribute to male and female attractiveness when attractiveness is rated by opposite-sex interviewers, and that anthropometric characteristics are irrelevant to male interviewers when assessing male attractiveness. We also estimate whether, controlling for beauty, body size measures are related to hourly wages. We find that anthropometric attributes play a significant role in wage regressions in addition to attractiveness, showing that body size cannot be dismissed as a simple component of beauty. Our findings are robust to controlling for health status and accounting for selection into working.
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Gonzalez-Navarro M, Quintana-Domeque C (2016). PAVING STREETS FOR THE POOR: EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF INFRASTRUCTURE EFFECTS.
REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS,
98(2), 254-267.
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Quintana-Domeque C, Turino F (2016). Relative Concerns on Visible Consumption: a Source of Economic Distortions.
B E JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL ECONOMICS,
16(1), 33-45.
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2015
Quintana-Domeque C, Biology EH, Team E (2015). Many congratulations to Professor Angus Deaton.
ECONOMICS & HUMAN BIOLOGY,
19, A1-A1.
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2014
de Oliveira VH, Quintana-Domeque C (2014). Early-life environment and adult stature in Brazil: an analysis for cohorts born between 1950 and 1980.
ECONOMICS & HUMAN BIOLOGY,
15, 67-80.
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Bozzoli C, Quintana-Domeque C (2014). THE WEIGHT OF THE CRISIS: EVIDENCE FROM NEWBORNS IN ARGENTINA.
REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS,
96(3), 550-562.
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2013
Mondria J, Quintana-Domeque C (2013). Financial Contagion and Attention Allocation.
ECONOMIC JOURNAL,
123(568), 429-454.
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2012
Oreffice S, Quintana-Domeque C (2012). Fat spouses and hours of work: are body and Pareto weights correlated?.
IZA Journal of Labor Economics,
1(1).
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Fat spouses and hours of work: are body and Pareto weights correlated?
© 2012, Oreffice and Quintana-Domeque; licensee Springer. Abstract: We explore the relationship between relative physical attractiveness in the household and the hours worked by married men and women. Using PSID data, we find that husbands who are thinner relative to their wives work fewer hours, while wives who are heavier relative to their husbands work more hours. These results are robust to controlling for individual, spousal characteristics, and conventional distribution factors, suggesting that high body weight leads to low Pareto weight in the household: fatter spouses may compensate with more hours of work. Our household bargaining interpretation is supported by the fact that we cannot statistically reject the collective proportionality restriction when including measures of the distribution of relative physical attractiveness in the population. JEL codes: D1, J1, J22
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Chiappori P-A, Oreffice S, Quintana-Domeque C (2012). Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market.
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY,
120(4), 659-695.
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Quintana-Domeque C, Bozzoli C, Bosch M (2012). The evolution of adult height across Spanish regions, 1950-1980: a new source of data.
ECONOMICS & HUMAN BIOLOGY,
10(3), 264-275.
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2011
Quintana-Domeque C, Bozzoli C, Bosch M (2011). Infant mortality and adult stature in Spain.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE,
72(11), 1893-1903.
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Villar JG, Oreffice S, Quintana-Domeque C (2011). Physical activity and obesity in Spain: Evidence from the Spanish national health survey. In (Ed)
The Economics of Sport, Health and Happiness: the Promotion of Well-being through Sporting Activities, 54-80.
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Quintana-Domeque C (2011). Preferences, Comparative Advantage, and Compensating Wage Differentials for Job Routinization.
OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS,
73(2), 207-229.
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2010
Oreffice S, Quintana-Domeque C (2010). Anthropometry and socioeconomics among couples: evidence in the United States.
Econ Hum Biol,
8(3), 373-384.
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Anthropometry and socioeconomics among couples: evidence in the United States.
We analyze the marriage-market aspects of weight and height in the United States using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics on anthropometric characteristics of both spouses. We find evidence of positive sorting in spouses' body mass index (BMI), weight, and height. Within couples, gender-asymmetric trade-offs arise not only between physical and socioeconomic attributes, but also between anthropometric attributes, with significant penalties for fatter women and shorter men. A wife's obesity (BMI or weight) measures are negatively correlated with her husband's income, education, and height, controlling for his weight and her height, along with spouses' demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Conversely, heavier husbands are not penalized by matching with poorer or less educated wives, but only with shorter ones. Height is valued mainly for men, with shorter men matched with heavier and less educated wives.
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2009
Bozzoli C, Deaton A, Quintana-Domeque C (2009). ADULT HEIGHT AND CHILDHOOD DISEASE.
DEMOGRAPHY,
46(4), 647-669.
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Garcia Villar J, Quintana-Domeque C (2009). Income and body mass index in Europe.
ECONOMICS & HUMAN BIOLOGY,
7(1), 73-83.
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Gonzalez-Navarro M, Quintana-Domeque C (2009). The reliability of self-reported home values in a developing country context.
JOURNAL OF HOUSING ECONOMICS,
18(4), 311-324.
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2007
Garcia J, Quintana-Domeque C (2007). Obesity, employment and wages in Europe.
Adv Health Econ Health Serv Res,
17, 187-217.
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Obesity, employment and wages in Europe.
This paper examines the associations between obesity, employment status and wages for several European countries. Our results provide weak evidence that obese workers are more likely to be unemployed or tend to be more segregated in self-employment jobs than their non-obese counterparts. We also find difficult to detect statistically significant relationships between obesity and wages. As previously reported in the literature, the associations between obesity, unemployment and wages seem to be different for men and women. Moreover, heterogeneity is also found across countries. Such heterogeneity can be somewhat explained by some labor market institutions, such as collective bargaining coverage and employer-provided health insurance.
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Garcia J, Quintana-Domeque C (2007). The evolution of adult height in Europe: a brief note.
ECONOMICS & HUMAN BIOLOGY,
5(2), 340-349.
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