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Informal care reduces work on the intensive and extensive margins; however, we do not know how caregiving affects work productivity. We link two new unique national U.S. data sets to provide the first causal estimates of the effect of providing at least 80 hours of informal care in the past...
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In this paper we estimate the long-run effects of informal care provision on female caregivers' labor market outcomes up to eight years after care provision. We compare a static version, where the average effects of care provision in a certain year on later labor market outcomes are estimated,...
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We analyze the causal effect of retirement on mental health, exploiting differences in retirement eligibility ages … across countries and over time using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We estimate not only … mental health distribution. We find unequally distributed protective effects of retirement on mental health. These gains are …
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We investigate the short- and long-term effects of retirement on loneliness using panel data from the Survey of Health … Fragebogendaten der Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe. Um einen kausalen Zusammenhang aufzuzeigen, nutzen wir die …
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This paper estimates the effect of informal care provision on female caregiver's health. We use data from the German … care provision on mental health which fades out over time. Five years after care provision there are no signifi cant … effects left. Both short- and medium-term effects on physical health are much smaller and insignificant throughout. …
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is spent in good or in poor health will drastically influence the development of health care costs as morbidity status … rather than age per se determines an individual's need for health care services. However, empirical evidence on whether the … longitudinal data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We find that disability levels in Europe …
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This paper estimates the effect of informal care provision on female caregiver’s health. We use data from the German … care provision on mental health which fades out over time. Five years after care provision there are no signifi cant … effects left. Both short- and medium-term effects on physical health are much smaller and insignificant throughout. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684807
This paper evaluates the impact of a massive expansion of after-school programs (ASPs) on the labor market participation of mothers with primary school children in the West German context of relatively low full-time employment rates. Using an instrumental variables approach we exploit regional...
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This paper combines German claims and survey data to provide a comprehensive picture of the health dynamics surrounding … the transition into motherhood. Event-study estimates reveal good mental health around birth, but declines afterward, as …
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We study the effect of education on health (hospital stays, number of diagnosed conditions, self-rated poor health, and … suggest a positive correlation of health and education which increases over the life-cycle. We do not, however, find any … positive local average treatment effects of an additional year of schooling on health or health care utilization for …
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