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The developmental approach to child and adult health
Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J. - 2012
an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional … pediatrics. We discuss current challenges to the field and suggest avenues for future research. -- health ; prevention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009680986
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Inequality in personality over the life cycle
Gensowski, Miriam; Gørtz, Mette; Schurer, Stefanie - 2020
We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet-level inventory linked to administrative data. We estimate life-cycle profiles non-parametrically and test for cohort and sample-selection effects. We discuss the economic...
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Modeling life-cycle earnings risk with positive and negative shocks
Sanchez, Manuel; Wellschmied, Felix - 2017
We study workers' idiosyncratic earnings risk over the life-cycle using a German administrative data set. Positive and negative earnings shocks both contain a highly persistent component. The variance and average size of positive persistent shocks is decreasing over the life-cycle. The...
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Labour market participation and atypical employment over the life cycle : a cohort analysis for Germany
Bachmann, Ronald; Felder, Rahel; Tamm, Marcus - 2018
Recent research shows that start-ups are important for job creation, but these firms are also inherently volatile. We use linked employer-employee data to examine the relative importance of firm age and firm size for job creation and destruction in Brazil. Firm age is a more important...
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Explaining well-being over the life cycle : a look at life transitions during young adulthood
Switek, Malgorzata - 2013
Early adulthood is a time of important transitions that shape the future of young adults. How do these transitions affect well-being, and to what degree can they account for the life satisfaction path followed during young adulthood? To answer these questions, longitudinal data from the Swedish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229927
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A continuous labour supply model in microsimulation : a life-cycle modelling approach with heterogeneity and uncertainty extension
Li, Jinjing; Sologon, Denisa Maria - 2011
This paper advances a structural inter-temporal model of labour supply that is able to simulate the dynamics of labour supply in a continuous setting and to circumvent two main drawbacks of most of the existing models. The first limitation is the inability to incorporate individual heterogeneity...
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Lifecycle patterns in the socioeconomic gradient of risk preferences
Schurer, Stefanie - 2015
Who is most likely to change their risk preferences over the lifecourse? Using German nationally representative survey data and methods to separate age from cohort effects, we estimate the lifecycle patterns in the socioeconomic gradient of self-reported risk preferences. Tolerance to risk drops...
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Exposure to war and its labor market consequences over the life cycle
Braun, Sebastian; Stuhler, Jan - 2023
With 70 million dead, World War II remains the most devastating conflict in history. Of the survivors, millions were displaced, returned maimed from the battlefield, or spent years in captivity. We examine the impact of such wartime experiences on labor market careers and show that they often...
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Long-run effects of severe economic recessions on male BMI trajectories and health behaviors
Nizalova, Olena; Norton, Edward C. - 2017
With periodic recessions and the rising costs of health care, it is important to know how labor market participation … and insecurity affects health outcomes. Yet, this line of research faces a number of methodological challenges which this … market shocks during severe recessions affect men's body mass index (BMI) and health-related behaviors. We use growth curve …
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Childhood circumstances and health of American and Chinese older adults : a machine learning evaluation of inequality of opportunity in health
Huo, Shutong; Feng, Derek; Gill, Thomas M.; Chen, Xi - 2024
Childhood circumstances may impact senior health, prompting this study to introduce novel machine learning methods to … assess their individual and collective contributions to health inequality in old age. Using the US Health and Retirement … Study (HRS) and the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), we analyzed health outcomes of American and …
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