We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health …

Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …

, self-reported health, and presence of chronic illness as health measures. After controlling for initial health conditions …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in …-hour mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired hours) have negative effects on workers´ health. In particular, we show …

This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours … on subjective and several objective health measures. The effects are mainly driven by women and parents of minor children …

evidence of negative effects on general, mental, or physical health in the 12-Item Short Form Survey (SF12), nor on self …While wind power is considered key in the transition towards net zero, there are concerns about adverse health impacts …-assessed health or doctor visits. We also do not find evidence for effects on suicides, an extreme measure of negative mental health …

with higher sickness absence, in general. Only employees who commute long distances are absent about 20% more than … evidence that it is due to working hours mismatch, lower work effort, reduced leisure time or differences in health status. …

self-assessed health. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), difference-in-differences estimations provide … evidence for health improvements for the population at large. Health benefits from the secondhand smokefree environment are … equivalent to an increase in household income of approximately 30%. Further subgroup analyses show that health improvements are …