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prior to the date of a survey interview. Weather conditions are capable of affecting peoples' health. While bad weather …-specifics in the health impairments due to bad weather, the increase in working hours is driven by women. …Ill-health is commonly believed to be detrimental for labor market outcomes. Yet, causal evidence mostly comes from …
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This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that … health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce negative mental health outcomes while hot temperatures increase them. Our … conditioning penetration rates, accessibility of mental health services, and other factors. The character of the results suggests …
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This study explores the link between daily weather conditions and individual engagement in physical activities within … the context of the climate emergency. Using ATUS data from 2003-2022, alongside detailed daily-county weather data, the … physical activity across varying weather conditions amid the ongoing climate emergency. …
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psychological buffer against health shocks in adulthood. To identify behavioural differences in labour supply, I focus on a selected … group of full-time employed men of working age and similar health. Men with negative control beliefs, relative to men with … positive beliefs, are 230-290% more likely to work part-time or drop out of the labour market after a health shock. In old age …
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This paper investigates the relationship between temperature and hospitalization in China. Using inpatient visit claims of two major public insurance schemes covering 47 cities in 28 provinces for three years, we see a 7.3% increase in hospital admissions on days on which the average temperature...
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Women bear a disproportionate share of the health and time burden associated with lack of access to modern energy. We … study the impact of clean energy access on adult health and labour supply outcomes by exploiting a nationwide rollout of a … clean cooking fuel program in Indonesia. We find that access to clean cooking fuel led to an improvement in women's health …
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different activities. There is a gender differentiated aspect to this response. We also examine the heterogeneity of effects …
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representative panel data sets from West Germany, results suggest that women with partners who grew up with a working mother are more …
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labor supply model with German time-use data and weather information. Our results provide some evidence on an interday labor …
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This study explores the differential impact of weather on time allocation to physical activity and sleep by children … regression model to estimate the causal impact of weather, we find that unfavourable weather conditions, as measured by cold or … weather conditions have little impact on children's sleep time or the time allocation of their parents. We also find …
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