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-reported health outcomes. More specifically, the paper examines whether older workers differ significantly from younger workers … regarding their job-related health risk perception, mental and physical health, sickness absence, probability of reporting … are more likely to perceive work-related health and safety risks, and to report mental, physical and fatigue health …
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If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...
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We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes …: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviors (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings … allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won by winners is largely …
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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 …
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led to a range of concerns over worker outcomes. A particular focus is the effect of instability on health in general, and … particularly, mental health. We provide new evidence on this, focusing on an extreme form of precarious employment that has grown …-lasting health problem than workers employed on other types of contract. In particular, reported levels of mental ill health are …
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environment on students' physical and mental health. In this paper, we draw on rich administrative data and the features of the …
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analogy to medical treatments, the individual exposure to these tools may have side effects. We study effects on health using … outcomes before and after exposure to training and sanctions. We find that training improves cardiovascular and mental health … sanctions cause a short-run deterioration of mental health, possibly due higher stress levels, but this tapers out quickly. …
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-Integration) and increased level of integration (Ethnosizer), good overall health (EQ-VAS) and mental health (CESD-20). It is estimated … integration, health/mental health status. For instance, translation and voice assistant applications are associated with a 4 …% increase in integration and a 0.8% increase in good overall health. Moreover, m-Integration applications aided by artificial …
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, family acceptance, and economic conditions bear an association with self-rated physical and mental health of sexual … minorities. Social rejection bears a negative association with physical and mental health. Family acceptance shares a positive … association with physical and mental health. Periods characterized by worse economic conditions (2013-2014 versus 2018 …
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Bullying is a widespread social phenomenon. We show that both children who are being bullied and children who bully suffer in terms of long-term outcomes. We rely on rich survey and register-based data for children born in a region of Denmark during 1990-1992, which allows us to carefully...
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