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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 …
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emigration, and provinces with higher public spending on health. Finally, we estimate economic cost of cold and heat waves using …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
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COVID-19 and the adoption of technologies in various sectors of the economy, ranging from health care facilities to …
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In Greece, given the precarious nature of the sex work industry, sex workers health and wellbeing is of concern …. However, relevant research remains limited. This study examined whether sex workers' self-reported physical and mental health … recession began) and in 2013 and 2019 (i.e. at time points during the recession). Self-reported physical and mental health …
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