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When traditional methods for measuring economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, heights and BMIs are now well accepted measurements that represent biological conditions during economic development. Weight, after controlling for height, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net...
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decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …
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This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours … on subjective and several objective health measures. The effects are mainly driven by women and parents of minor children …
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find a quarter of students violated the order. Yet, neither risk preference, altruism, nor preexisting health conditions …-existing health conditions may not voluntarily comply, resulting in higher health care congestion than otherwise expected. …
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This paper examines the effect of e-waste dumping sites on early child health. We focus on two major dumping sites in …
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pressure strongly associated with adverse health outcomes. In line with theories of compensating differentials, work pressure …
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-nationals who remained in Ukraine. Specifically, we identify the determinants of happiness, trust and self-declared health, and the … economically and in terms of their general wellbeing (happiness). Having experienced violence does not seem to compel Ukrainians to …. Having suffered violence, however, has a lasting adverse impact on the happiness, trust and health of Ukrainians in Poland …
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We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health …
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Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …
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, self-reported health, and presence of chronic illness as health measures. After controlling for initial health conditions …
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