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The transmission of mental health within households : does one partner's mental health influence the other partner's life satisfaction?
Mendolia, Silvia; McNamee, Paul; Yerokhin, Oleg - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820886
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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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Have girls been left behind during the COVID-19 pandemic? : gender differences in pandemic effects on children's mental wellbeing
Mendolia, Silvia; Suziedelyte, Agne; Zhu, Anna - 2021
previous findings of larger pandemic effects on mental health of women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607586
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Social media extensive use and emotional and behavioural outcomes in adolescence : evidence from British longitudinal data
McNamee, Paul; Mendolia, Silvia; Yerokhin, Oleg - 2019
study in economics to analyse the effect of social media use on adolescents' mental health. We use individual fixed effects … significantly associated with poorer emotional health and more behavioural difficulties, and in particular decreased perception of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012147005
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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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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973310