We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women … persistent negative implications on women's physical and mental health that is not just limited to the time of menstruation. …

We investigate the causal impact of offering telehealth services to female microfinance borrowers on their health and … telehealth services on self-reported physical and mental health of treated relative to control women. Treated women seek … women) to seek health care. …

This paper investigates the causal impact of working conditions on mental health in the UK, combining new comprehensive … quality impacts different dimensions of mental health. Specifically, skills and discretion primarily affect the loss of …) and job demand (lower intensity) lead to greater health benefits, especially for occupations that are inherently …

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …

Previous research has found that immigration benefits the health of working-age natives, an effect mediated through the … labor market. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration also … affects the health of natives 65-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and …

We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability …

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 …

emigration, and provinces with higher public spending on health. Finally, we estimate economic cost of cold and heat waves using …

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 …

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 …