This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that … health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce negative mental health outcomes while hot temperatures increase them. Our … conditioning penetration rates, accessibility of mental health services, and other factors. The character of the results suggests …

psychological buffer against health shocks in adulthood. To identify behavioural differences in labour supply, I focus on a selected … group of full-time employed men of working age and similar health. Men with negative control beliefs, relative to men with … positive beliefs, are 230-290% more likely to work part-time or drop out of the labour market after a health shock. In old age …

Using Norwegian administrative register data, we assess the impact of health shocks hitting lone parents, specifically … to the deteriorating health of a parent tend to be short-lived and mostly manifest as temporary absences from work rather …

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 …

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 poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …

Does working time causally affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which … exogenous to workers' health. Difference-in-differences and lagged dependent variable regressions reveal a negative effect of … working hours on self-reported health and positive effects on smoking and body mass index, though the latter is imprecisely …

the weeks following the mobile clinic visit. The study further investigates the effect of health information by … contrasting program effects by workers revealed health status. For workers who test positive for malaria, the treatment of illness … to be surprised by the healthy diagnosis, the health information also leads to increased earnings via increased …

force participation on obesity status. We use data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and replicate labor …

of high psychic costs of coping with a child with ADHD. -- ADHD ; child health ; marital dissolution ; labor supply …