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The effects of adverse childhood experiences on adults' subjective wellbeing
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
, experiencing long-term health problems, being bullied at school and being beaten or punched as a child all have long-term impacts … aspects of everyday life, happiness and life satisfaction, self-assessed health, and are positively linked to measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014390527
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The effect of weight on labor market outcomes : an application of genetic instrumental variables
Böckerman, Petri; Cawley, John H.; Viinikainen, Jutta; … - 2016
The increase in the prevalence of obesity worldwide has led to great interest in the economic consequences of obesity, but valid and powerful instruments for obesity, which are needed to estimate its causal effects, are rare. This paper contributes to the literature by using a novel instrument:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458875
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Unfit for service : the implications of rising obesity for US military recruitment
Cawley, John H.; Maclean, Johanna Catherine - 2011
This paper contributes to the literature on the labor market consequences of unhealthy behaviors and poor health by … series of National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys that spans 1959-2008. We calculate that the percentage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310092
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The demand for cigarettes as derived from the demand for weight control
Cawley, John H.; Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie von - 2013
for cigarettes is a derived demand. Public health efforts to reduce smoking initiation and encourage cessation may wish to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715818
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The effect of deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised good and its substitutes : the case of over-the-counter weight loss products
Cawley, John H.; Avery, Rosemary J.; Eisenberg, Matthew - 2013
sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health-promoting decisions. -- advertising ; weight loss ; obesity … ; deception ; information ; drugs ; health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717705
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Long COVID in the United States
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
Although yet to be clearly identified as a clinical condition, there is immense concern at the health and wellbeing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228934
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Effect of stress on later-life health : evidence from the Vietnam War draft
Grossman, Daniel; Cawley, John H.; De Walque, Damien - In: Southern economic journal 85 (2018) 1, pp. 142-165
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