overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have …This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development …

the high level occupations. Thus, religion was more important than gender in explaining occupational patterns. American … increased over the next decade. Among Jews and among non-Jews, there were only small gender differences in the proportions in …

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential … literature that debates the importance of socioeconomic status (SES) in determining health and survival. They augment a growing …

and preferred hours, the so-called work hours constraints? How does this affect the productivity of workers, their health …, and overall life satisfaction? Labor supply and corresponding demand are fundamental to production. Labor economists know …

the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the … ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and …

satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men … and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they … work full-time without overtime hours but neither their job satisfaction nor their life satisfaction are affected by how …

-time. We analyze the relationship between part-time work and life satisfaction, and between job satisfaction and preferred … working hours using panel data on life and job satisfaction for a sample of partnered women and men. We also utilize time … hypothesis in this context. Our main results indicate that partnered women in part-time work have high levels of job satisfaction …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … potential endogeneity of politician gender and the sample composition of births, we find that a one standard deviation increase …