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Incentivizing sleep? : insufficient sleep affects employment and productivity

Costa-Font, Joan - 2022

Spending time sleeping not only improves individuals' well-being, but it can influence employment outcomes and … sleep on employee fatigue and cognitive performance, and the associated effects on employment disruption and productivity … loss. Sleep can be influenced by "sleep friendly" employment regulations, technology nudges, monetary incentives, and …

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How to support adult caregivers? : caregiving for older adults is detrimental to caregivers' well-being and requires policy interventions to support them

Costa-Font, Joan - 2023

harmful effects on the well-being of caregivers and can exacerbate the existing gender inequalities in employment. To overcome …

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Caregiving Subsidies and Spousal Early Retirement Intentions

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina - 2022

Balancing caregiving duties and work can be both financially and emotionally burdensome, especially when care is provided to a spouse at home. This paper documents that financial respite for caregivers can influence individuals' early retirement decisions. We examine the effect of a reform...

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The Labour Market Returns to Sleep

Costa-Font, Joan; Flèche, Sarah; Pagan, Ricardo - 2022

induced by time and local variations in sunset time. We find that a 1-hour increase in weekly sleep increases employment by 1 …

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Health and Wellbeing Spillovers of a Partner's Cancer Diagnosis

Angelini, Viola; Costa-Font, Joan - 2023

Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer diagnosis (CD), on the health and well- being of an...

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