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neglecting its potential effects on health and human capital. Several medical studies provide evidence of important associations … between sleep deprivation and health outcomes suggesting a large impact on health care systems and individual productivity … design to identify the effects of sleep on health status, weight, and cognitive abilities. Our results suggest that delaying …
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The opioid epidemic is a national public health emergency. As the number of fatal overdoses and drug abuse skyrockets …
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Over the last two decades, the number of delivering mothers using or dependent on opiates has increased dramatically, giving rise to a five-fold increase in the proportion of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). First, the current study documents NAS trends in the United States...
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This paper provides new evidence on job search intensity of the unemployed in the U.S., modeling job search intensity as time allocated to job search activities. The main findings are: 1) the average unemployed worker in the U.S. devotes about 41 minutes to job search on weekdays, which is...
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This paper provides new evidence on time use and subjective well-being of employed and unemployed individuals in 14 countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search intensity, measured by the amount of time devoted to searching for a new job. Job search...
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