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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 literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health or developmental outcome. This paper exploits exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174497
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119651
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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
household monetary expenditures on either tobacco or alcohol. The impact is greater for lower educated individuals or children … cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking behaviours. We find that mental distress significantly increases the prevalence and … intensity of either cigarette or alcohol consumption. Further analysis reveals that mental distress also substantially increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332029
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Early life environments and frailty in old age among Chinese older adults
Li, Yaxi; Xue, Qian-Li; Odden, Michelle C.; Chen, Xi; … - 2020
Exposures in childhood and adolescence may impact the development of diseases and symptoms in late life. However, evidence from low- and middle- income countries is scarce. In this study, we examined the association of early life risk factors with frailty among older adults using a large,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149131
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013329544
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Health inequalities among people experiencing food insecurity : an intersectional approach
Drydakis, Nick - 2023
The study examines the socio-economic determinants of physical health among populations experiencing food insecurity and receiving free meals in soup kitchens in the Prefecture of Attica, Greece. Data were collected from the same six soup kitchens in 2012, 2017, and 2021, resulting in a dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446144
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Place of birth and cognitive function among older Americans : findings from the harmonized cognitive assessment protocol
Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2024
Growing evidence suggests that place of birth (PoB) and related circumstances may have long-lasting and multiplicative contributions to various later-life outcomes. This study investigates the extent to which PoB contributes to a wide range of domains of later-life cognitive function. Leveraging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014637545
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The perceived social rejection of sexual minorities : substance use and unprotected sexual intercourse
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
This study presents associations between the perceived social rejection of sexual minorities and tobacco, alcohol, and … associated with the increased consumption of tobacco (by 9.1%, P <0.01), alcohol (by 7.1%, P <0.01), and cannabis (by 12.5%, P <0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013257321
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The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on inequalityof opportunity in psychological distress in the UK
Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2020
We use data from Wave 9 of UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) and the April 2020 Wave of the UKHLS COVID-19 survey to compare measures of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in psychological distress, as measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), before (Wave 9) and at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222180
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Self-selection in physical and mental health among older intra-European migrants
Constant, Amelie; Milewski, Nadja - 2020
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265276