Showing 1 - 10 of 246
This paper is a meta-analysis on the relationship between unemployment and health. Our meta-dataset is made up of 327 … estimators. The average effect of unemployment on health is negative, but small in terms of partial correlation coefficient. We … psychological domains of health and that short- and long-term unemployment spells equally affect health. Dealing with endogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285031
emigration, and provinces with higher public spending on health. Finally, we estimate economic cost of cold and heat waves using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806269
several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight … and reduce their probability of being underweight. No effect is observed on girls of similar age. These health indicators …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391116
We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i … physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are largely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208783
introduction of pension benefits on the health status, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization of rural Chinese adults age 60 … and above. The results point to three main conclusions. First, in addition to improvements in self-reported health, older … adults with access to the pension program experienced significant improvements in several important measures of health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161478
improvement selfreported measures of native workers' health. These findings, together with the evidence that immigrants report … lower injury rates than natives, suggest that the reallocation of tasks could reduce overall health care costs and the human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131226
2000 and 2021 studying the impact of retirement on physical and mental health, self-assessed general health, healthcare …This paper presents a meta-analysis on the effects of retirement on health. We select academic papers published between … health outcomes. Almost 60% of the observations do not provide statistically significant findings. Using meta …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012595921
We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292383
Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600832
, self-reported health, and presence of chronic illness as health measures. After controlling for initial health conditions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600842