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Sex Workers' Self-Reported Physical and Mental Health in Greece : A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study in 2009, 2013 and 2019
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
In Greece, given the precarious nature of the sex work industry, sex workers health and wellbeing is of concern … deteriorated across time points during the economic recession in Athens, Greece. The study focused on 13 areas where off-street and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087389
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The Effect of Unemployment on Self-Reported Health and Mental Health in Greece from 2008 to 2013 : A Longitudinal Study Before and During the Financial Crisis
Drydakis, Nick - 2015
-reported health and mental health in Greece. The specifications suggest that unemployment results in lower health and the … periods of high unemployment, suggesting that the unemployment crisis in Greece is more devastating as it concerns more people …, women are more negatively affected by unemployment in relation to their health and mental health statuses than are men.Greece …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031089
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Evidence on the Long Shadow of Poor Mental Health Across Three Generations
Johnston, David W. - 2011
Individuals suffering from mental health problems are often severely limited in their social and economic functioning. Mental health problems can develop early in life, are frequently chronic in nature, and have an established hereditary component. The extent to which mental illness runs in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119541
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The Long-Term Effects of the Chernobyl Catastrophe on Subjective Well-Being and Mental Health
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2011
This paper assesses the long-term subjective well-being and mental health toll of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 in the general Ukrainian population and estimates the monetary differential necessary to compensate victims of the catastrophe. The analysis is based on two nationally representative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121334
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Child Mental Health and Educational Attainment : Multiple Observers and the Measurement Error Problem
Johnston, David W. - 2011
We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use unique UK survey data that contains (potentially biased)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121757
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Job Anxiety, Work-Related Psychological Illness and Workplace Performance
Jones, Melanie K. - 2011
This paper uses matched employee-employer data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2004 to examine the determinants of employee job anxiety and work-related psychological illness. Job anxiety is found to be strongly related to the demands of the job as measured by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122972
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Does Mother Know Best? Parental Discrepancies in Assessing Child Functioning
Datta Gupta, Nabanita - 2012
We investigate the degree of correspondence between parents' reports on child behavioral and educational outcomes using the most recent available wave of a rich Danish longitudinal survey of children (the DALSC). All outcomes are measured at age 11 when the children are expected to be in fifth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098462
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Who Cares About Stock Market Booms and Busts? Evidence from Data on Mental Health
Ratcliffe, Anita - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between share prices and mental health, exploiting the availability of interview dates in the British Household Panel Survey to match the level and changes in the FTSE All Share price index to respondents over the period 1991-2008. We present evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098468
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Mental Health and Education Decisions
Cornaglia, Francesca - 2012
Mental health problems – and depression in particular – have been rising internationally. The link between poor mental health and poor educational outcomes is particularly interesting in the case of the UK which has a low international ranking both on measures of child wellbeing and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107717
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The Marginal Income Effect of Education on Happiness : Estimating the Direct and Indirect Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Well-Being in Australia
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2013
Many economists and educators favour public support for education on the premise that education improves the overall well-being of citizens. However, little is known about the causal pathways through which education shapes people's subjective well-being (SWB). This paper explores the direct and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082171