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This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that … health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce negative mental health outcomes while hot temperatures increase them. Our … conditioning penetration rates, accessibility of mental health services, and other factors. The character of the results suggests …
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We analyze whether field of study assigned at age 16 impacts mental health in adulthood. Using a regression … discontinuity design that exploits GPA cut-offs, we find that admission to the preferred study field improves mental health …, lowering both the incidence of antidepressant prescriptions and of mental health-related hospitalizations. Engineering …
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-Integration) and increased level of integration (Ethnosizer), good overall health (EQ-VAS) and mental health (CESD-20). It is estimated … integration, health/mental health status. For instance, translation and voice assistant applications are associated with a 4 …% increase in integration and a 0.8% increase in good overall health. Moreover, m-Integration applications aided by artificial …
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Research has shown that employment status, such as being unemployed or retired, can be related to well-being. In addition, the direction and size of these relationships can be influenced by the employment status of one's peer group. For example, it has been shown that the well-being of the...
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This study examines whether an association exists between parental unemployment and health-related quality of life and … mental health for adolescents aged 15-18 in Athens, Greece. The gathered dataset covers the same upper high schools in two … periods, 2011-2013 and 2017-2019. The study finds that parental unemployment bears an association with decreased health …
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Research has shown that employment status, such as being unemployed or retired, can be related to well-being. In addition, the direction and size of these relationships can be influenced by the employment status of one's peer group. For example, it has been shown that the well-being of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793456
There is a consensus in the literature on the relevance of the first 1,000 days since conception in the development of a child's cognitive and non-cognitive skills. However, little is known of the determinants of these skills at that age, as previous literature has focused on the effect of in...
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This paper investigates the relationship between partner's mental health and individual life satisfaction, using a …'s mental health and to calculate the Compensating Income Variation (CIV) of them. To the best of our knowledge, this is the … first paper to study the effect of partner's mental health on individual's wellbeing and to measure the impact of reduced …
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We estimate the effect of BMI on mental health for young adults and elderly individuals using data from the National … Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Health & Retirement Study. To tackle confounding due to unobserved factors, we … attainment) that may invalidate this IV. We find a large statistically significant effect of BMI on mental health for the elderly …
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Drawing upon theoretical insights from the Job Demand-Control model, which links occupational characteristics to health …, this paper provides the first causal evidence of the physical and mental health consequences of self … self-employment (opportunity entrepreneurship) lead to health enhancements for entrepreneurs with and without employees …
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