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We examine how health information affects individuals' subjective well-being using a regression discontinuity design on … health (negative). …
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Internet usage in general and social networking platforms (SNPs) in particular have dramatically changed the way we spend our time. A relevant question is how this change in time-use affected the well-being of people in general and younger people in particular. We answer this question by...
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Economics rests upon a set of presumptions about how human beings are affected by income. Yet causal evidence is scant. This paper reports a longitudinal study of randomly selected lottery winners. Remarkably, we show that it takes almost three years before they enjoy their money. We develop a...
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This paper studies the evolution of life satisfaction over the life course in Germany. It clarifies the causal interpretation of the econometric model by discussing the choice of control variables and the underidentification between age, cohort and time effects. The empirical part analyzes the...
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(Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the household's disposable annual income is used …
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health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement, the utilization of health care and social care and the dynamics of …
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This paper analyses, both theoretically and empirically, women's health choices and their effects on child health for a … prenatal and postnatal determinants of child health both under certainty and uncertainty, hence introducing the possibility of … different health production functions before and after birth. An approach that is well in line with recent research in nutrition …
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strain and mental health. Specifically, we consider the longitudinal relationships between payment difficulties and … subjective (self-reported anxiety) as well as objective (psychiatric drug use) measures of mental ill-health. Among previously … healthy individuals, payment difficulty experiences are strongly associated with self-reported mental ill-health. The …
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Adolescent mental health is key for later well-being. Yet, causal evidence on environmental drivers of adolescent … mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature - the gender composition in compulsory-school - affects … mental health. We use Swedish administrative data (N=576,285) to link variation in gender composition across classrooms …
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There have been more than 500,000 opioid overdose deaths since 2000. To analyze the opioid epidemic, we construct a model where individuals, with and without pain, choose whether to misuse opioids knowing the probabilities of addiction and dying. These odds are functions of opioid use. Markov...
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