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relationship between exposure to stress and overall health is shown. Apparently, the increase in mortality can be explained by the … increase in individual stress after the economic, cultural and political consequences of reunification. …
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This paper uses matched employee-employer data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2004 to examine the determinants of employee job anxiety and work-related psychological illness. Job anxiety is found to be strongly related to the demands of the job as measured by...
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We study the effects of terrorism in Spain on birth outcomes, focusing on terrorism perpetrated by ETA, combining information on the number of bomb casualties from The Victims of ETA Dataset with the individual birth records from the national registry of live births in Spain, elaborated by the...
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The ways in which preferences respond to the varying stress of economic environments is a key question for behavioral … economics and public policy. We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate the effects of stress on financial decision … intelligence tests as cognitive stressors, we find that stress increases subjective discounting rates, has no effect on the degree …
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-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the …
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stress, income and hours worked. However, despite these large effects on job attributes, we find that promotions have … deterioration two years after receiving a promotion. Thus, it seems the additional stress involved with promotions eventually …
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The "Retired Husband Syndrome", that affects the mental health of wives of retired men around the world, has been anecdotally documented but never formally investigated. We use Japanese micro data and the exogenous variation generated by the 2006 revision of the Japanese Elderly Employment...
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To identify molecular mechanisms by which early life social conditions might influence adult risk of disease in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we analyze changes in basal leukocyte gene expression profiles in 4-month-old animals reared under adverse social conditions. Compared to the basal...
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