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Temperature and Mental Health: Evidence from the Spectrum of Mental Health Outcomes
Mullins, Jamie; White, Corey - 2019
This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that … health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce negative mental health outcomes while hot temperatures increase them. Our … conditioning penetration rates, accessibility of mental health services, and other factors. The character of the results suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141239
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The Supply of Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - 2004
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261870
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The effects of children's ADHD on parents' relationship dissolution and labor supply
Kvist, Anette Primdal; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Simonsen, … - 2011
This paper uses Danish register-based data for the population of children born in 1990-1997 to investigate the effects on parents of having a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD). Ten years after birth, parents of children diagnosed with ADHD have a 75% higher probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282421
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The Effect of Working Hours on Health
Berniell, Maria Ines; Bietenbeck, Jan - 2017
Does working time causally affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which … exogenous to workers' health. Difference-in-differences and lagged dependent variable regressions reveal a negative effect of … working hours on self-reported health and positive effects on smoking and body mass index, though the latter is imprecisely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653252
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Unfair Wage Perceptions and Sleep: Evidence from German Survey Data
Pfeifer, Christian - 2015
affect workers' sleep and, consequently, their health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345373
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If You Don't Snooze You Lose: Evidence on Health and Weight
Giuntella, Osea; Mazzonna, Fabrizio - 2016
neglecting its potential effects on health and human capital. Several medical studies provide evidence of important associations … between sleep deprivation and health outcomes suggesting a large impact on health care systems and individual productivity … design to identify the effects of sleep on health status, weight, and cognitive abilities. Our results suggest that delaying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479291
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The Supply of Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763893
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Long Work Hours and Health in China
Nie, Peng; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2015
Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours … on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513188
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Long Work Hours and Health in China
Nie, Peng; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours … on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210814
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The effects of female labor force participation on obesity
Gomis-Porqueras, Pedro; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Peralta-Alva, … - 2011
force participation on obesity status. We use data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and replicate labor …-in-differences estimation strategy in the NHIS data, as has been done in several other data sets. Depending on the specification, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286901