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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S
Kapteyn, Arie - 2010
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...
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Happiness Inequality in the United States
Stevenson, Betsey - 2009
This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s. There have been large changes in the level of happiness...
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Comparing Real Wages
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2012
A real wage rate is a nominal wage rate divided by the price of a good and is a transparent measure of how much of the good an hour of work buys. It provides an important indicator of the living standards of workers, and also of the productivity of workers. In this paper I set out the conceptual...
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Chain Restaurant Calorie Posting Laws, Obesity, and Consumer Welfare
Courtemanche, Charles - 2020
The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced a mandate requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menus and menu boards. This paper investigates whether and why calorie posting laws work. To do so, we develop a model of calories consumed that highlights two...
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The Effect of the Minimum Wage on the Fast Food Industry
Katz, Lawrence F.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021
Using data from a longitudinal survey of fast food restaurants in Texas, the authors examine the impact of recent changes in the federal minimum wage on a low-wage labor market The authors draw four main conclusions. First, the survey results indicate that less than 5 percent of fast food...
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The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity and Weight Gain
Currie, Janet - 2015
We investigate the health consequences of changes in the supply of fast food using the exact geographical location of fast food restaurants. Specifically, we ask how the supply of fast food affects the obesity rates of 3 million school children and the weight gain of over 3 million pregnant...
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Maternal Stress and Child Outcomes : Evidence from Siblings
Aizer, Anna - 2012
We study how maternal stress affects offspring outcomes. We find that in-utero exposure to elevated levels of the … stress hormone cortisol negatively affects offspring cognition, health and educational attainment. These findings are based … literature linking exogenous exposure to stress hormones in-utero with declines in offspring cognitive, behavioral and motor …
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Weathering the Storm : Hurricanes and Birth Outcomes
Currie, Janet - 2012
stress, our results are supportive of the idea that stressful events in pregnancy can damage the health of the fetus. However …
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Fighting Procrastination in the Workplace : An Experiment
Cadena, Ximena - 2014
intervention also improved worker satisfaction and reduced stress levels, without affecting the quality of the loan officers …
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The Impact of Job Stress on Smoking and Quitting : Evidence from the Hrs
Ayyagari, Padmaja - 2010
This paper examines the impact of job-related stress on smoking behavior. We use data from the Health and Retirement … Study to examine how high job stress affects the probability that smokers quit and the number of cigarettes smoked for … also included to control for occupational characteristics other than stress; time dummies control for the secular decline …
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