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Nurturing the future : how positive parenting is related to children’s skills and well-being
Breitkopf, Laura; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Priyam, Shambhavi - 2024
We study the relationship between parenting style and a broad range of children’s skills and outcomes. Based on survey and experimental data from 5,580 children and their parents, we find that children exposed to positive parenting have higher IQs, are more altruistic, open to new...
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Socialism, identity and the well-being of unemployed women
Günther, Tom; Conradi, Jakob; Hetschko, Clemens - 2024
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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The long-run consequences of Chernobyl : evidence on subjective well-being, mental health and welfare
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - 2014
health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370275
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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022
We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include models accounting for several confounders, regional and...
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Health and wellbeing spillovers of a partner's cancer diagnosis
Angelini, Viola; Costa-Font, Joan - 2023
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014292854
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Social contacts, unemployment, and experienced well-being : evidence from tim-use data
Thi Truong An Hoang; Knabe, Andreas - 2022
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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The long-term impact of paid parental leave on maternal health and subjective well-being
Heisig, Katharina - 2023
-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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The cost of well-being
Pettini, Anna; Patrizi, Vincenzo; Resce, Giuliano - 2015
Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...
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Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany
Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - 2020
We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a "disruptive exogenous shock" to family life. We make use of a novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012260836
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The baby year parental leave reform in the GDR and its impact on children's long-term life satisfaction
Heisig, Katharina; Zierow, Larissa - 2019
children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR … positive parental leave effects on life satisfaction. We also analyze whether the increase in life satisfaction is driven by a … positive development of personality, health factors, schooling or labor market outcomes. Our results suggest that the increase …
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