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managerial stress, also relative to known health risks …
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This paper examines the sources of expenditure growth in heart attack treatment. We first show that essentially all of cost growth is a result of the diffusion of particular intensive technologies; the prices paid for a given level of technology have been constant or falling over time. We then...
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, while the fraction working would be 17.2% if none had the option of flexible hours. We further found that job stress …
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We provide some of the first empirical evidence of maternal and fetal health effects of working during pregnancy by using a unique dataset from the New Jersey Department of Health that includes information not only on pregnancy and birth outcomes but also on maternal employment. We match the...
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A potential contributor to socioeconomic disparities in academic performance is the difference in the level of stress … experienced by students outside of school. Chronic stress - due to neighborhood violence, poverty, or family instability - can … affect how individuals' bodies respond to stressors in general, including the stress of standardized testing. This, in turn …
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. Concerns about money can create mental burdens such as worry, stress, or sadness. These in turn could interfere with the …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected American children, including disruptions to their care and school settings. Children attending in-person child care or school have contended with unpredictable closures and time in remote school, which in turn is subject to its own types of...
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To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...
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This paper examines the impact of job-related stress on smoking behavior. We use data from the Health and Retirement … Study to examine how high job stress affects the probability that smokers quit and the number of cigarettes smoked for … also included to control for occupational characteristics other than stress; time dummies control for the secular decline …
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This paper uses the National Comorbidity Survey - Replication to estimate the effects of recent psychiatric disorder on employment, hours worked, and earnings. We employ methods proposed in Altonji, Elder and Taber (2005) which use selection on observable traits to provide information regarding...
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