fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong … deprivation indicators as well as in the case of self-reported generic measures of physical health. Lifestyle and chronic health …

This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth using a natural … allocated to an unfamiliar language environment. The differences are driven by growth rather than gestation and manifest in a 2 ….9 percentage point difference in low birth weight incidence. We find substantial dose-response relationships in terms of language …

statistically significant relationship between gendered language and the incidence of intimate partner violence in a cross … language structures spoken by individuals with a shared religious and ethnic background residing in the same country. We show … that speaking a gendered language is associated with the belief that intimate partner violence is justifiable. Our results …

The globalization of labour markets makes language skills one of the key competences required by employers nowadays …. Our purpose is to estimate the wage premium from foreign language skills (FLS) earned by the Poles. We also want to find …, because the Polish language is not used for international communication, while as much as 58% of Poles command at least one …

first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross … opposite. Consistent with the hypothesized asymmetric role of language in the transferability of previously acquired cognitive … and manual skills, these discrepancies are larger among immigrants with limited language fluency. …

We examine the heterogeneous impacts of foreign language use at work on earnings of both native-born workers and … 2001. Our findings are the following. First, for native-born workers with a tertiary diploma, using a foreign language at …, returns to foreign language use at work is highly complementary to education. Foreign language users below the upper secondary …

This paper identifies a new source of differences in religiosity: the presence of future tense marking in language. We … different language. …

In a world increasingly globalized, multiple language skills can create more employment opportunities. Several … countries include language training programs in active labor market programs for the unemployed. We analyze the effects of a … language training program on the re-employment probability and hourly wages of the unemployed simultaneously, using highquality …

This research establishes empirically that existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense and … ancestry is (i) higher if the dominating language at home has a periphrastic future tense, and (ii) lower for women exposed …