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Poverty and postnatal depression: a systematic mapping of the evidence from low and lower middle income countries
Coast, Ernestina; Leone, Tiziana; Hirose, Atsumi; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This study systematically maps, assesses and aggregates research relating to postnatal depression (PND) and poverty in low and lower middle income countries (LLMICs). Our search of 12 databases yielded 2202 articles, of which 47 items from 17 countries were included in our mapping. We highlight...
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Does Working Longer Make People Healthier and Happier?
Calvo, Esteban - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
PURPOSE: This study addresses the impact of late-life paid work on physical and psychological well-being. METHODS: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged 59 to 69 who were working or not-working in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616686
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Obesity, Unhappiness, and The Challenge of Affluence: Theory and Evidence
Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
British population view themselves as overweight, and that happiness and mental health are worse among fatter people in both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762107
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Early Life Circumstance and Adult Mental Health
Fenske, James; Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Nyshadham, Anant - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
We show that psychological well-being in adulthood varies substantially with circumstance in early life.  Combining a time series of real producer prices of cocoa with a nationally representative household survey in Ghana, we find that a one standard deviation rise in the cocoa price in early...
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Family Ruptures and Intergenerational Transmission of Stress
Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
The high and rapidly increasing prevalence of mental illnesses underscores the importance of understanding their causal origins. This paper analyzes one factor at a critical stage of human development: exposure to maternal stress from family ruptures during the fetal period. We find that in...
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Does state spending on mental health lower suicide rates?
Ross, Justin M.; Yakovlev, Pavel A.; Carson, Fatima - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 4, pp. 408-417
Using recently released data on public mental health expenditures by U.S. states from 1997 to 2005, this study is the first to examine the effect of state mental health spending on suicide rates. We find the effect of per capita public mental health expenditures on the suicide rate to be...
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Are fruit and vegetables good for our mental and physical health? Panel data evidence from Australia
Mujcic, Redzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
fruit and vegetables increasing average happiness and self-reported health scores of women significantly more than that of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108290
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Calculating Tragedy: Assessing the Costs of Terrorism
Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
surveyed and put in perspective. As economic consequences are only a part of the overall costs of terrorism, possible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627796
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Calculating Tragedy: Assessing the Costs of Terrorism
Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2004
surveyed and put in perspective. As economic consequences are only a part of the overall costs of terrorism, possible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673515
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Measuring Terrorism
Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
Terrorism will be high on the political agenda for many years to come. Various policies are open to a government … fighting terrorism but, in any case, considerable costs are involved. In the competition for political support, the costs and … benefits of anti-terrorism policies will be debated. Better information about terrorism and its consequences can improve policy …
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