School-age children need 10-11 hours of sleep per night. It has been well-documented that lack of sleep leads to … diminished cognitive performance and that people who sleep less are more likely to be overweight or obese. I use data from the … American Time Use Survey (ATUS) to examine two factors that can potentially influence the amount of time children sleep: school …

literature, the long-term consequences of such problems, depression in particular, have received much less attention. In this … paper, we examine the effect of depression during adolescence on the probability of engaging in a number of criminal … childhood depression and adult criminality. One novelty in our approach is the estimation of school and sibling fixed effects …

in characteristics. Scots also suffer from higher levels of self-assessed depression or phobia, accidental death and …

individual may enter a prolonged depression. We investigate this using unique longitudinal panel data that track labor market … effects estimation methods. We find some strikingly large effects of certain events on the occurrence of depression. We show …

This study assesses hiring discrimination based on disclosed depression. We send out pairs of job applications from … fictitious unemployed candidates to real vacancies in Belgium. Within each pair, one candidate cites depression as the reason for … applicants disclosing former depression are treated unfavourably is rejected. However, if we break up the data by the gender of …