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Intergenerational scars: The impact of parental unemployment on individual health later in life
Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence …. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of parental unemployment relied on plant closures as exogenous variation … of the individual labor market condition. We combined matching methods and parametric estimation to strengthen the causal …
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Firm Closures and Labor Market Policies in Europe: Evidence from Retrospective Longitudinal Data
Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Voucharas, Georgios - 2023
-employment duration, unemployment duration, and re-employment wages in the case of job displacements due to firm closures. We use … unemployment, but not in terms of wages, compared to males. Policymakers may consider the importance of implementing diverse …
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Social Networks and Mental Health Outcomes: Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Experience
Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2019
Over the past two decades, more than 160 million Chinese rural workers have migrated to cities to work. They are separated from their familiar rural networks to work in an unfamiliar, and often hostile environment. Many of them thus face significant mental health challenges. This paper is the...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054555
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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health among Older Intra-European Migrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Milewski, Nadja - 2020
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012264436
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Parental Gender Stereotypes and Student Wellbeing in China
Chu, Shuai; Zeng, Xiangquan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect student's educational performance, who are challenged by parental expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are strongly more depressed, feeling blue, unhappy, not...
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Weather, psychological wellbeing and mobility during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic
Burdett, Ashley; Davillas, Apostolos; Etheridge, Ben - 2021
To reduce infection rates during the first UK wave of the COVID-19 outbreak, a first lockdown was announced on March 23, 2020, with a final easing of the restrictions on July 4, 2020. Among the most important public health costs of lockdown restrictions are the potential adverse effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430597
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Sex workers' self-reported physical and mental health in Greece. A repeated cross-sectional study in 2009, 2013 and 2019
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
and sex workers' self-reported physical and mental health. The opposite was found for annual aggregate unemployment. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610279
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COVID-19 and School Closures
Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas - 2022
To reduce the spread of COVID-19, schools closed to an unprecedented degree in the spring of 2020. To varying extent, students have moved between in-person and remote learning up until the spring of 2021. This chapter surveys the literature on the implications of school closures of primary to...
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Does extreme temperature exposure take a toll on mental health? Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study
Chen, Yanran; Sun, Ruochen; Chen, Xi; Qin, Xuezheng - 2023
Long-term exposure to extreme temperatures could threaten individuals' mental health and psychological wellbeing. This study aims to investigate the long-term impact of cumulative exposure to extreme temperature. Differently from existing literature, we define extreme temperature exposure in...
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