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prior to the date of a survey interview. Weather conditions are capable of affecting peoples' health. While bad weather …-specifics in the health impairments due to bad weather, the increase in working hours is driven by women. …Ill-health is commonly believed to be detrimental for labor market outcomes. Yet, causal evidence mostly comes from …
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psychological buffer against health shocks in adulthood. To identify behavioural differences in labour supply, I focus on a selected … group of full-time employed men of working age and similar health. Men with negative control beliefs, relative to men with … positive beliefs, are 230-290% more likely to work part-time or drop out of the labour market after a health shock. In old age …
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’ labour force participation, cognitive ability, and health in a simple theoretical model, and estimates the effects of … in countries with few formal care alternatives. Furthermore, caregivers in all countries suffer from worse mental health … when caregiving is prompted by poor parental health. The results for the effects of caregiving on physical health and …
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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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Using Norwegian administrative register data, we assess the impact of health shocks hitting lone parents, specifically … to the deteriorating health of a parent tend to be short-lived and mostly manifest as temporary absences from work rather …
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We estimate the long-run labor market and health effects of breast cancer among Austrian women. Compared to a random … sample of same-aged non-affected women, those diagnosed with breast cancer face a 22.8 percent increase in health expenses, 6 …
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Green tax reform is unpopular because, typically, the poor are hurt most by the higher prices of carbon-intensive commodities. If revenues from a carbon tax are recycled, it may be feasible to gain popular support for green tax reform. To investigate this, we estimate an EASI demand system from...
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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...
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This paper uses Danish register-based data for the population of children born in 1990-1997 to investigate the effects on parents of having a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD). Ten years after birth, parents of children diagnosed with ADHD have a 75% higher probability...
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A widespread finding among studies from the US and the UK is that maternal employment is correlated with an increased risk of child overweight, even in a causal manner, whereas studies from European countries obtain less conclusive results. As evidence for Germany is still scarce, the purpose of...
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