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This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that … health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce negative mental health outcomes while hot temperatures increase them. Our … conditioning penetration rates, accessibility of mental health services, and other factors. The character of the results suggests …
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This study explores the link between daily weather conditions and individual engagement in physical activities within … the context of the climate emergency. Using ATUS data from 2003-2022, alongside detailed daily-county weather data, the … physical activity across varying weather conditions amid the ongoing climate emergency. …
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This study explores the differential impact of weather on time allocation to physical activity and sleep by children … regression model to estimate the causal impact of weather, we find that unfavourable weather conditions, as measured by cold or … weather conditions have little impact on children's sleep time or the time allocation of their parents. We also find …
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This paper examines the effect of a decline in health on the savings and portfolio choice of young, working individuals … health, controlling for variables such as income, age, and out-of-pocket medical expenses. Unlike many previous papers, which … dismiss health and portfolio choice associations among retired individuals on the basis of unobserved heterogeneity, we find …
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the weeks following the mobile clinic visit. The study further investigates the effect of health information by … contrasting program effects by workers revealed health status. For workers who test positive for malaria, the treatment of illness … to be surprised by the healthy diagnosis, the health information also leads to increased earnings via increased …
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Is BMI related to hours of work through marriage market mechanisms? We empirically explore this issue using data from the NLSY79 and NLSY97 and a number of estimation strategies (including OLS, IV, and sibling FE). Our IV estimates (with same-sex sibling's BMI as an instrument and a large set of...
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Innovations in cancer treatment have lowered mortality, but little is known about their economic benefits. We assess the effect of two decades of improvements in cancer treatment options on the labor market outcomes of breast and prostate cancer patients. In addition, we compare this effect...
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countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …
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jointly managing mental health and human capital. The results shed light on the relative importance of several drawbacks to …
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Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets. To the extent that it is associated with lower prospects of being in couple and obtaining intra-couple transfers, we expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply...
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