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Terrorism and Human Capital at Birth: Bomb Casualties and Birth Outcomes in Spain
Quintana-Domeque, Climent; Ródenas-Serrano, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the effects of terrorism in Spain on birth outcomes, focusing on terrorism perpetrated by ETA, combining … registry of live births in Spain, elaborated by the Spanish Statistical Institute (INE). We focus on live births conceived …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095514
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Transcriptional Modulation of the Developing Immune System by Early Life Social Adversity
Cole, Steven W.; Conti, Gabriella; Arevalo, Jesusa M.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990923
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Does Grief Transfer across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884097
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Extra Status and Extra Stress: Are Promotions Good for Us?
Johnston, David W.; Lee, Wang-Sheng - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884199
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Pappa Ante Portas: The Retired Husband Syndrome in Japan
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884370
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The Mortality Crisis in East Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822360
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Job Anxiety, Work-Related Psychological Illness and Workplace Performance
Jones, Melanie K.; Latreille, Paul L.; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144856
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Effects of Stress on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments
Delaney, Liam; Fink, Günther; Harmon, Colm P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105080
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Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation: An Experimental Study
Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
mission-oriented organizations is important to explain empirical findings of lower wages and high motivation in the latter. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279260
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Incentives and Group Identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
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