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physical, cognitive and mental health. Effects are heterogeneous, though. Reductions in well-being appear among those having … child care – experience some health improvements without reduced well-being. Well-being reductions are not driven by …-being and health effects …
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having grandchildren on the happiness of grandparents varies with the gender of their (own) single child. In line with our …
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We use a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to evaluate the impact of cost-sharing on the use of health services. In … the Italian health system, individuals reaching age 65 and earning low incomes are given total exemption from cost …-sharing for health services consumption. Since the probability of exemption changes discontinuously at age 65, we use a Fuzzy RDD …
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unknown whether mental health morbidity causally leads to addictive behaviours. This paper utilises a fixed effects … instrumental variables model, which is identified by time-varying sources of plausibly exogenous variations in mental health, and a … of smokers, and is slightly higher for males. Our findings highlight the importance of mental health screening and …
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We examine the relationship between child quantity and quality. Motivated by the theoretical ambiguity regarding the sign of the marginal effects of additional siblings on children’s outcomes, our empirical model allows for an unrestricted relationship between family size and child outcomes....
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The growth of novel flexible work formats raises a number of questions about their effects upon health and the …-employment in terms of health. In addition to variation in work status of each individual over time, we also consider variation … driven by a number of novel instrumental variables. We also focus on an objective health outcome -hospital admissions- that …
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earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide … effects concentrated in the low birthweight range. Infant health measures appear to explain little of the well …
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problem of negative health selection into early retirement, we exploit a policy change in unemployment insurance rules in …
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problem of negative health selection into early retirement, we exploit a policy change in unemployment insurance rules in …
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This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort …-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and …-dimensionality in these health effects. The empirical findings reflect the multi-dimensionality but allow for deriving two broader …
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