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Health, Cognition and Work Capacity Beyond the Age of 50

Vandenberghe, Vincent - 2019

The rising cost of old-age dependency in Europe and elsewhere invariably leads to reforms aimed at raising the effective age or retirement. But do older individuals have the health/cognitive capacity to work longer? Following Cutler et al. (2012), this paper asks how much older individuals could...

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Causal impact of physical activity on child health and development

Nguyen, Ha Trong; Christian, Hayley; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022

The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health or developmental outcome. This paper exploits exogenous...

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Health shocks and spousal labor supply: An international perspective

Jolly, Nicholas A.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2022

This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to analyze the effect of spousal health shocks on own labor supply decisions. Results from the analysis suggest minimal changes to the probability of work and the intensity of work for both husbands and wives of...

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Work Beyond the Age of 50. What Role for Mental v.s. Physical Health?

Vandenberghe, Vincent - 2021

This paper contributes to the literature on old employment barriers by exploring empirically the relative importance of mental v.s. physical health in determining work. It combines regression and variance decomposition analyses to quantify the respective role of mental v.s. physical health. The...

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Labour supply and informal care responses to health shocks within couples: evidence from the UKHLS

Macchioni Giaquinto, Annarita; Jones, Andrew M.; Rice, Nigel - 2021

Shocks to health have been shown to reduce labour supply for the individual affected. Less is known about household self-insurance through a partner's response to a health shock. Previous studies have presented inconclusive empirical evidence on the existence of a healthrelated 'added worker...

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Multitasking

Zaiceva-Razzolini, Anzelika - 2022

This chapter reviews economic studies on multitasking in household production. Whereas multitasking or task juggling in … the workplace has been analyzed more widely, economic literature on multitasking in a household is relatively scarce. The … chapter first provides relevant measures of such multitasking activities, discusses time diary data, and presents some …

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Short-Run Health Consequences of Retirement and Pension Benefits: Evidence from China

Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019

This paper examines the impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation of an NRPS policy expansion that began in 2009, we used a difference-in-difference approach to study the effects of the introduction of pension benefits on the health status,...

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Conflict Exposure and Economic Welfare in Nigeria

Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo - 2019

Several papers have attempted to estimate and document the impact of conflict on numerous education, health and socioeconomic outcomes. One lesson from this research is the heterogeneity in the effect of violent conflict across and within countries. In this paper we attempt to estimate the...

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Mental Health, Schooling Attainment and Polygenic Scores: Are There Significant Gene-Environment Associations?

Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason M.; … - 2019

It is well-established that (1) there is a large genetic component to mental health, and (2) higher schooling attainment is associated with better mental health. Given these two observations, we test the hypothesis that schooling may attenuate the genetic predisposition to poor mental health....

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The Impact of BMI on Mental Health: Further Evidence from Genetic Markers

Amin, Vikesh; Flores, Carlos A.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2019

We examine the relationship between BMI and mental health for young adults and elderly individuals using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Health & Retirement Study. While OLS estimates show that BMI is significantly associated with worse mental health in...

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