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Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant …
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We show that sleep deprivation exerts strong negative effects on mothers' labour market performance. To isolate exogenous variations in maternal sleep, we exploit unique variations in child sleep disruption using a UK panel dataset that follows mother-child pairs through time. We find that...
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We show that sleep deprivation exerts strong negative effects on mothers' labour market performance. To isolate exogenous variations in maternal sleep, we exploit unique variations in child sleep disruption using a UK panel dataset that follows mother-child pairs through time. We find that...
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We investigate the labour supply response to acute health shocks experienced in the post-crash labour market by … acute health shock, defined by the incidence of cancer, stroke, or heart attack. Results, obtained through a combination of … coarsened exact and propensity score matching, show acute health shocks significantly reduce participation, with younger workers …
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Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network …. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer … diagnosis (CD), on the health and well- being of an individual's partner. We rely on data from a longitudinal sample of …
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Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network …. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer … diagnosis (CD), on the health and well-being of an individual's partner. We rely on data from a longitudinal sample of …
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The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are … examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test … the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape pattern between both economic and health development and income inequalities …
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, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health. Labor market policies that enhance wages can … supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … health. Using data on the entire universe of births in the US over 25 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is …
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