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Labour Market Outcomes for Cancer Survivors : A Review of the Reviews

Sharipova, Adelina - 2020

Objectives: To synthesise the existing reviews conducted on the labour market outcomes of cancer survivors by focusing on (i) the convergences and divergences on the overall work-related outcomes, (ii) the moderating factors studied to date, and (iii) an identification of areas where more...

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Promoting Breast Cancer Screening Take-Ups with Zero Cost : Evidence from an Experiment on Formatting Invitation Letters in Italy

Bertoni, Marco - 2019

We ran a randomized field experiment to ascertain whether a costless manipulation of the informational content (restricted or enhanced information) and the framing (gain or loss framing) of the invitation letter to the breast cancer screening program in Messina, Italy, affects the take-up rate....

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Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water and Mental Health

Chowdhury, Shyamal - 2015

This paper investigates the effect of drinking arsenic contaminated water on mental health. Drinking water with an unsafe arsenic level for a prolonged period can lead to arsenicosis, which includes symptoms such as black spots on the skin and subsequent illnesses such as various cancers. We...

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Education and Cancer Risk

Leuven, Edwin - 2014

There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence and mortality. This paper exploits a large social experiment where an...

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Early Interventions and Disability Insurance : Experience from a Field Experiment

Engström, Per - 2012

This paper estimates the effects of early interventions in the Swedish sickness insurance system. The aim of the interventions is to screen and, further to, rehabilitate sick listed individuals. We find that the early interventions – in contrast to what is expected – increase the inflow into...

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Getting Disabled Workers Back to Work : How Important are Economic Incentives?

Fevang, Elisabeth - 2013

We investigate the impacts of economic incentives on the duration and outcome of temporary disability insurance (TDI) spells. The analysis is based on a large quasi-experiment in Norway, with a complete overhaul of the TDI benefit system. Our findings show that the labor supply of TDI claimants...

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Leaving Poverty Behind? The Effects of Generous Income Support Paired with Activation

Markussen, Simen - 2014

reduced work capacity. The program offers a combination of tailored rehabilitation, training and job practice, and a generous …

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Prison Rehabilitation Programs : Efficiency and Targeting

Arbour, William; Lacroix, Guy; Marchand, Steeve - 2021

upon release. Yet, the mechanisms through which incarceration can lead to successful rehabilitation remain largely unknown …. This paper finds that participation in social rehabilitation programs while incarcerated can significantly reduce … for successful rehabilitation. We also find considerable heterogeneous program treatment effects: inmates with a high …

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Prison Work and Convict Rehabilitation

Zanella, Giulio - 2020

I study the causal pathways that link prison work programs to convict rehabilitation, leveraging administrative data …

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Psychological Resilience to Major Socioeconomic Life Events

Etile, Fabrice - 2020

Understanding who in the population is psychologically resilient in the face of major life events, and who is not, is important for policies that target reductions in disadvantage. In this paper we construct a measure of adult resilience, document its distribution, and test its predictability by...

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