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Smoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow : income and risky choices amongst young adults in the UK
Coppola, Gianluigi; O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Pinto, Claudio - 2015
In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … adequate to deal with the type of lifestyle consumption goods considered here. We indicate the lines along which a model needs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308440
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COVID-19 lockdown, home environment, lifestyles, and mental health among preschoolers in China
Zhang, Yunting; Zhao, Jin; Yu, Zhangsheng; Wang, Guanghai; … - 2024
city-wide cohort of preschool children - the Shanghai Children's Health, Education and Lifestyle Evaluation, Preschool …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529072
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Lifestyle and mental health disruptions during COVID-19
Giuntella, Osea; Hyde, Kelly; Saccardo, Silvia; Sadoff, … - 2020
COVID-19 has affected daily life in unprecedented ways. Using a longitudinal dataset linking biometric and survey data from several cohorts of young adults before and during the pandemic (N=685), we document large disruptions to physical activity, sleep, time use, and mental health. At the onset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262394
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Health information and lifestyle behaviours: the impact of a diabetes diagnosis
Gaggero, Alessio; Gil, Joan; Jiménez-Rubio, Dolores; … - 2021
We estimate short- and long-term causal impacts of a type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) diagnosis on lifestyle behaviours … information in affecting changes in key lifestyle behaviours. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431649
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Time, money, peers, and parents : some data and theories on teenage behavior
Kooreman, Peter (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001829708
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Daily use of social media is associated with more body dissatisfaction of teenage girls in a large cross-cultural survey
Napp, Clotilde; Breda, Thomas - 2022
Most teenagers spend several hours per day on social media. We provide a large-scale investigation of the relationship between social media daily usage and body dissatisfaction among a sample of more than 50,000 15 y.o. students. This relation is positive and large for girls - higher use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471462
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Looks and gaming : who and why?
Chung, Andy; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Singleton, Carl; … - 2024
We investigate the relationship between physical attractiveness and the time people devote to video/computer gaming. Average American teenagers spend 2.6% of their waking hours gaming, while for adults this figure is 2.7%. Using the American Add Health Study, we show that adults who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015044925
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The educational upgrading of Japanese youth, 1982 - 2007 : are all Japanese youth ready for structural reforms?
Arai, Yoichi; Ichimura, Hidehiko; Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2015
Are all Japanese youth ready for the structural reforms proposed as a supply-side policy of Abenomics? To answer this … question, we assess how well Japanese youth have coped with the labor market's long-term structural changes, induced primarily … examine the role of educational upgrading on the labor-market outcomes of youth between the ages of 25 and 29, using six waves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488241
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More schooling, less youth crime? : learning from an earthquake in Japan
Aoki, Yu - 2014
This paper aims to identify the causal effect of schooling on youth crime. To identify the causal effect, I use the … policy interventions that occurred after the Kobe earthquake that hit Japan in 1995 as a natural experiment inducing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434594
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Long work hours and health in China
Nie, Peng; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2015
Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498368