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Delving into the eye of the cyclone to quantify the cascading impacts of natural disasters on life satisfaction
Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis - 2024
The catastrophic effects of natural disasters on social and economic systems are well-documented; however, their impacts on individual life satisfaction remain insufficiently understood. This study pioneers a causal analysis of cyclones' impacts on Australians' life satisfaction, using local...
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Who's declining the "free lunch"? : new evidence from the uptake of public child dental benefits
Ha Trong Nguyen; Le, Huong Thu; Connelly, Luke B. - 2020
Recent economic literature has advanced the notion that cognitive biases and behavioural barriers may be important influencers of uptake decisions in respect of public programs that are designed to help disadvantaged people. This paper provides the first evidence on the determinants of uptake of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181129
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Does retirement lead to life satisfaction? : causal evidence from fixed effect instrumental variable models
Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis; Taylor, Catherine L.; … - 2020
This paper presents robust evidence that retirement causally improves overall life satisfaction which is subsequently explained by improvements in satisfaction with one’s financial situation, free time, health, and participation in local community activities. Furthermore, while the positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012220236
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Natural disasters, home damage, and the eroding locus of control
Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis - 2024
The catastrophic consequences of natural disasters on social and economic systems are extensively documented, yet their influence on individuals' sense of control over their life outcomes remains unexplored. This study pioneers an investigation into the causal effects of natural disaster-related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580667
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The impact of weather on time allocation to physical activity and sleep of child-parent dyads
Ha Trong Nguyen; Christian, Hayley; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2021
This study explores the differential impact of weather on time allocation to physical activity and sleep by children and their parents. We use nationally representative data with time use indicators objectively measured on multiple occasions for more than 1,100 child-parent pairs, coupled with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587778
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Causal impact of physical activity on child health and development
Ha Trong Nguyen; Christian, Hayley; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022
The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant … comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual … physical activity leads to widespread benefits in child development. These include improved health, social and emotional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174497
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Identifying the effects of health insurance coverage on health care use when coverage is misreported and endogenous
Ha Trong Nguyen; Le, Huong Thu; Blyth, Christopher; … - 2024
The examination of the causal impact of health insurance coverage on healthcare utilisation is a critical endeavour in both academic research and policy formulation. However, this endeavour faces challenges, notably the endogenous selection into coverage and prevalent misreporting of coverage...
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The causal impact of mental health on tobacco and alcohol consumption : an instrumental variables approach
Mitrou, Francis; Ha Trong Nguyen; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2023
The reciprocal relationship between psychiatric and substance use disorders is well-known, yet it remains largely unknown whether mental health morbidity causally leads to addictive behaviours. This paper utilises a fixed effects instrumental variables model, which is identified by time-varying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332029
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The effects of sleep duration on child health and development
Ha Trong Nguyen; Zubrick, Stephen R.; Mitrou, Francis - 2022
This paper studies the extent to which sleep duration causally affects health, cognitive and noncognitive development … to draw causal estimates of sleep duration on a comprehensive set of child development indicators. Our results show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342793
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Solar cycles and time allocation of children and adolescents
Ha Trong Nguyen; Zubrick, Stephen R.; Mitrou, Francis - 2024
This study explores the allocation of time, particularly to sleep, among children and adolescents in response to daily solar cycles. Utilizing a dataset of over 50,000 time-use diaries from two Australian cohorts spanning 16 years and employing an individual fixed effects estimator, we uncover a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502274