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Suicidal Behavior and the Labor Market Productivity of Young Adults
Tekin, Erdal; Markowitz, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
suicide thoughts and suicide attempts decrease the hourly wage rate and the probability that a young adult individual works … effects of suicide thoughts and suicide attempts on the work and schooling activities of young adults as well as on their … hourly wage rates. The richness of the data set allows us to implement several strategies to control for unobserved …
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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal; Greve, Jane - 2014
males, including employment status, annual salary, hourly wage rate, and hours of work. Our findings indicate that potential … lower likelihood of employment, a lower salary, and reduced labor supply, but not necessarily a lower wage rate. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481564
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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal; Greve, Jane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
males, including employment status, annual salary, hourly wage rate, and hours of work. Our findings indicate that potential … lower likelihood of employment, a lower salary, and reduced labor supply, but not necessarily a lower wage rate. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095510
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Economic Status, Air Quality, and Child Health: Evidence from Inversion Episodes
Jans, Jenny; Johansson, Per; Nilsson, Peter - 2014
On normal days, the temperature decreases with altitude, allowing air pollutants to rise and disperse. During inversion episodes, a warmer air layer at higher altitude traps pollutants close to the ground. We show how readily available NASA satellite data on vertical temperature profiles can be...
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Under Pressure? Assessing the Roles of Skills and Other Personal Resources for Work-Life Strains
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Ribar, David C.; Western, Mark - 2018
Many working parents struggle to balance the demands of their jobs and family roles. Although we might expect that additional resources would ease work-family constraints, theory and evidence regarding resources have been equivocal. This study uses data on working mothers and fathers – as well...
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Early life health and adult earnings: Evidence from a large sample of siblings and twins
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Anton; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2011
We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health information is obtained from medical examinations during the mandatory military enlistment tests at age...
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Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Public Works Programme
Freund, Richard; Favara, Marta; Porter, Catherine; … - 2022
Many low- and middle-income countries have introduced Public Works Programmes (PWPs) to fight poverty. PWPs provide temporary cash-for-work opportunities to boost poor households' incomes and to provide better infrastructure to local communities. While PWPs do not target children directly, the...
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Pension Reforms, Longer Working Horizons and Depression. Does the Risk of Automation Matter?
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Da Re, Filippo - 2022
We investigate the effect of postponing minimum retirement age on middle-aged workers' depression. Using pension reforms in several European countries and data from the SHARE survey, we find that depression increases with a longer work horizon, but only among workers employed in occupations with...
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Indoor Air Quality and Cognitive Performance
Künn, Steffen; Palacios, Juan; Pestel, Nico - 2019
This paper studies the causal impact of indoor air quality on the cognitive performance of individuals using data from official chess tournaments. We use a chess engine to evaluate the quality of moves made by individual players and merge this information with measures of air quality inside the...
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The Impact of Caste: A Missing Link in the Literature on Stunting in India
Ramachandran, Rajesh; Deshpande, Ashwini - 2021
India is home to some 120 million children under the age of 5, 36 percent of whom are chronically malnourished. The associated high prevalence of stunting has generated a stream of research explaining why chronic malnourishment in India is higher than in poorer countries of sub-Saharan Africa....
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