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evidence of negative effects on general, mental, or physical health in the 12-Item Short Form Survey (SF12), nor on self …While wind power is considered key in the transition towards net zero, there are concerns about adverse health impacts …-assessed health or doctor visits. We also do not find evidence for effects on suicides, an extreme measure of negative mental health …
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Serious life events, such as the loss or the onset of a chronic condition may influence cognitive functioning. We examine whether the cognitive impact of such events is stronger if conditions very early in life were adverse, using Dutch lnogitudinal data of older persons. We exploit exogenous...
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We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health …
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This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …
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, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …
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, public holidays and other special days or events coinciding with paydays and for general within-month and within … liquidity constraints. All things considered, our results suggest that an increase in general economic activity on salary …
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We construct a unified objective measure of health status: the frailty index, defined as the cumulative sum of all … adverse health indicators observed for an individual. First, we show that the frailty index has several advantages over self …-reported health status, particularly when studying health dynamics. Then we estimate a stochastic process for frailty dynamics over …
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for job loss having an impact on health behavior, diabetes progression and cardiovascular risk factors. …
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of health problems among individuals with poor labour market prospects. We use register data covering the entire Swedish … population, including very detailed information on health. …
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We investigate the causal impact of retirement on health care utilization. Using SHARE data (from 2004 to 2013) for 10 … European countries, we show that health care utilization increases when individuals retire. This is true both for the number of … the doctor's). This increase turns out to be driven by visits to general practitioners', while specialists' visits are not …
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