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Do gender, child, and parent characteristics contribute to intergenerational subjective well-being mobility? : evidence from Russia during 1994-2019
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022
Measuring the intergenerational mobility of welfare provides key inputs for policies, but very few studies examine intergenerational mobility of subjective well-being (SWB), particularly in a poorer, transitional country context. We make new contributions by analyzing rich panel SWB data from...
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"More children, more happiness?" : new evidence from elderly parents in China
Gao, Yanyan; Qu, Zhaopeng - 2019 - This version: July 2019
the cohort and provincial variations of elderly parents exposed to the one-child policy in China. Using nationally … square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents’ subjective well-being (SWB … parents' life satisfaction is heterogenous to sex composition, first-birth gender, and parents' age. Our study provides new …
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Family matters: involuntary parental unemployment during childhood and subjective wellbeing later in life
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris N. - 2018
resources, and parents' working time when growing up. These findings imply that the adverse effects associated with parental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131231
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Economic recession, parental unemployment and adolescents' health-related quality of life and mental health outcomes in Greece
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
This study examines whether an association exists between parental unemployment and health-related quality of life and mental health for adolescents aged 15-18 in Athens, Greece. The gathered dataset covers the same upper high schools in two periods, 2011-2013 and 2017-2019. The study finds that...
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Child gender and subjective well-being of older parents in China
Lei, Lei; Wu, Fengyu; Xia, Yiming - 2023
In many societies, parents prefer sons over daughters, but the well-being effects of child gender, especially in later … paper evaluates the impacts of having daughters on older parents' subjective well-being (SWB) in China, which has a rapidly … aging population and the traditional preference for sons. Studying the cohort of parents whose child gender is as good as …
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Something in the pipe : Flint water crisis and health at birth
Wang, Rui; Chen, Xi; Li, Xun - 2021
In 2014, the city of Flint, MI in the U.S. changed its public water source, resulting in severe water contamination and a public health crisis. Using the Flint Water Crisis as a natural experiment, we estimate the effect of in utero exposure to polluted water on health at birth. Matching vital...
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Prenatal sunshine exposure and birth outcomes in China
Zhang, Xin; Wang, Yixuan; Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xun - 2020
This paper is one of the first to examine the associations between prenatal sunshine exposure and birth outcomes, specifically the incidence of low birth weight (LBW) and small for gestational age (SGA), based on a nationally representative birth record dataset in China. During the sample period...
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Birth in hard times when you belong to minorities
Bertoli, Paola; Grembi, Veronica; Nguyen, The Linh Bao - 2020
Combining a unique dataset of birth records with municipal-level real estate information, we assess the impact of the 2008 recession on the health of immigrant newborns in Italy. Health at birth (e.g., low birth weight) of immigrants deteriorated more than health at birth of Italians. The...
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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences : a large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018
. Importantly, we find that socio-economic status of a family has no explanatory power as soon as we control for parents' economic …
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Neo-humanism and COVID-19 : opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021 - Version: 20 April 2021
A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
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