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2.4 cm. Together with the positive association with male stature and the increase in gender dimorphism, we also show an …
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-19, and uncover four new facts. First, ethnicity predicts mental health deterioration when interacted with gender. Among …, among women, the deterioration in mental health is similar for both BAME and British White individuals. Second, the gender … group of individuals to assess and quantify changes in mental health among ethnic groups in the UK. We confirm the …
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Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We …
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health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …
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Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network …. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer … diagnosis (CD), on the health and well-being of an individual's partner. We rely on data from a longitudinal sample of …
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We use the UK Time-Use Survey 2014/15 to analyze how differences in the frequency and intensity of social contacts contribute to the gap in experienced well-being between employed and unemployed persons. We observe that people generally enjoy being with others more than being alone. The...
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-term physical and mental health and subjective well-being. There is weak, but not robust, evidence for increased satisfaction with … physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a …
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-being. -- unemployment ; happiness ; life satisfaction ; Day Reconstruction Method ; identity ; partnership ; gender roles …We use the differences between life satisfaction and emotional well-being of employed and unemployed persons to analyze … affected by traditional gender roles, while this does not seem to be the case for the affective part of their subjective well …
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the satisfaction differences between work-linked and non-work-linked partners. Using data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP, 2019), we estimate the effect of working in the same occupation and/or industry on life satisfaction as well as … satisfaction with four areas of life: income, work, family and leisure. In the process, we employ pooled OLS estimations and …
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We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of … their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet … mothers are perceived as still having worse health at older ages, even if their objective health status has recovered. These …
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