The health risks of the current COVID-19 pandemic, together with the drastic mitigation measures taken in many affected … nations, pose an obvious threat to public mental health. The social science literature has already established a clear link … between mental health and sociodemographic as well as economic factors, and a growing number of studies investigate the role …

subjective indicators reveal differences in satisfaction with household income, health, and childcare. In contrast, job …, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life … satisfaction and health. They also, however, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age …

Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours … on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …

on its impact on three areas of caregivers' lives: employment, health, and family. Because the literature is inherently … of the caregiver's psychological health, which also has a negative impact on physical health outcomes. Third, the …

Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we investigate the causal relation between housing … conditions (both internal and external) and health among urban adults aged 18+. We find that housing improvement reduces the … probability of bad self-reported health by 3.7 percent, with more pronounced impacts among females, older adults, those with lower …

This analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in … Europe (SHARE) to assess the effect of ageing and health on the life satisfaction of the oldest old (defined as 75 and older … for the oldest old. This decline is primarily attributable to low levels of perceived health. Once cohort effects are also …

This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio …) cross-sectional causality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health that complement self …-reported measures of health status. Not only does using the panel structure with individual fixed effects mitigate the bias from …

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal …

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in …-hour mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired hours) have negative effects on workers' health. In particular, we show …

Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by … income-health gradient irrespective of whether the income measure is current or long term. Because risky behavior may … attenuate income's positive effects on health, we also analyze the association between income and such health …