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show that a policy targeting additional health resources for the young children of adults diagnosed with mental health …
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We examine the effects of a comprehensive school reform on mental health. The reform postponed the tracking of students …
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This paper assesses the long-run toll taken by a large-scale technological disaster on welfare, well-being and mental health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in radioactive fallout to respondents of a nationally...
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The proportion of people sleeping less than the daily-recommended hours has increased. Yet, we know little about the labour market returns to sleep. We use longitudinal data from Germany and exploit exogenous variation in sleep duration induced by time and local variations in sunset time. We...
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More than 18 percent of U.S. adults met the diagnostic criteria for a mental illness. Yet, many who could benefit from mental health care do not receive any treatment, mostly due to the inability to pay for care or lack of health insurance coverage. How does a sudden change in health insurance...
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What are the effects of school and daycare facility closures during the COVID-19 pandemic on parental well-being and … parenting behavior? Can emergency childcare policies during a pandemic mitigate increases in parental stress and negative … observed increase in negative and potentially harmful parenting behavior is largely directly caused by school and daycare …
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This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children’s mental health. Combining several nationwide … children. …
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How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …' preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes …
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Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health. Parenthood imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). These...
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for both mothers and children, measured at primary-school age, and broke the intergenerational association of these …
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