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Winning big but feeling no better? : the effect of lottery prizes on physical and mental health
Apouey, Bénédicte; Clark, Andrew E. - 2010
We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes …: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviors (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings … allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won by winners is largely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937887
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COVID-19, lockdowns and well-being : evidence from Google Trends
Brodeur, Abel; Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; … - 2020
sadness, while searches for stress, suicide and divorce on the contrary fell. Our results suggest that people's mental health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210424
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Early-life correlates of later-life well-being : evidence from the Wisconsin longitudinal study
Clark, Andrew E.; Lee, Tom - 2017
, mental health and social participation are the strongest predictors of both measures of well-being in older age. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760110
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Return-to-office mandates, health and well-being : evidence from a natural experiment
Costi, Chiara; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; … - 2024
effect of a return-to-office (RTO) mandate on worker health and well-being. In nine waves of quarterly panel data we first … hours, and interact less with relatives and friends. The net effect of these lifestyle changes on a battery of health and … positive nor negative health implications. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015075852
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What predicts a successful life? : a life-course model of well-being
Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca - 2013
British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health …-satisfaction. Mental and physical health are much more important. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201282
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Maternal genetic risk for depression and child human capital
Menta, Giorgia; Lepinteur, Anthony; Clark, Andrew E.; … - 2022
We here address the causal relationship between the maternal genetic risk for depression and child human capital using UK birth-cohort data. We find that an increase of one standard deviation (SD) in the maternal polygenic risk score for depression reduces their children's cognitive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471350
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When to release the lockdown? : a wellbeing framework for analysing costs and benefits
Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, Andrew E.; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel - 2020
It is politicians who have to decide when to release the lockdown, and in what way. In doing so, they have to balance many considerations (as with any decision). Often the different considerations appear incommensurable so that only the roughest of judgements can be made. For example, in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207440
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Gender, loneliness and happiness during COVID-19
Lepinteur, Anthony; Clark, Andrew E.; … - 2022
We analyse a measure of loneliness from a representative sample of German individuals interviewed in both 2017 and at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Both men and women felt lonelier during the COVID-19 pandemic than they did in 2017. The pandemic more than doubled the gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426701
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Teleworking and life satisfaction during COVID-19 : the importance of family structure
Senik-Leygonie, Claudia; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, … - 2022
We carry out a difference-in-differences analysis of a representative real-time survey conducted as part of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study and show that teleworking had a negative average effect on life satisfaction over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013454808
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Healthcare workers and life satisfaction during the pandemic
Costi, Chiara; Clark, Andrew E.; Lepinteur, Anthony; … - 2023
We evaluate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the life satisfaction of healthcare workers, as compared to the wider workforce, in five European countries. In ten waves of quarterly panel data, the life satisfaction of healthcare workers is always higher than that of other essential workers...
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