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Communication problems? : the role of parent-child communication for the subsequent health behavior of adolescents
Avdic, Daniel; Büyükdurmus, Tugba - 2015
behavior of adolescents may arise from the degree of communication between parent and child. Parent-child communication may … reduces the smoking prevalence of adolescents by as much as 70%, irrespective of social background. More complex relationships …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519179
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Economic recession, parental unemployment and adolescents' health-related quality of life and mental health outcomes in Greece
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
mental health for adolescents aged 15-18 in Athens, Greece. The gathered dataset covers the same upper high schools in two …-related quality of life and increased adverse mental health symptoms for adolescents. Moreover, the 2011-2013 period, a period of … for adolescents. In addition, parental unemployment proved more detrimental to adolescents' health-related quality of life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013329544
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Economic recession, parental unemployment and adolescents' health-related quality of life and mental health outcomes in Greece
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
mental health for adolescents aged 15-18 in Athens, Greece. The gathered dataset covers the same upper high schools in two …-related quality of life and increased adverse mental health symptoms for adolescents. Moreover, the 2011-2013 period, a period of … for adolescents. In addition, parental unemployment proved more detrimental to adolescents' health-related quality of life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342940
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Smoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow : income and risky choices amongst young adults in the UK
Coppola, Gianluigi; O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Pinto, Claudio - 2015
In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free choice. The main underlying assumption is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308440
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Migration, health knowledge and teenage fertility : evidence from Mexico
Battaglia, Marianna - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 2, pp. 179-206
Migrationmay affect fertility and child health care of those remaining in the country of origin.Mexican data show that having at least one household member who migrated to the United States decreases the occurrence of pregnancy among teenagers by 0.339 probability points. This finding can be...
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Teenage mothers' health across different life stages
Kalb, Guyonne; Vu, Ha - 2021
Many women who give birth during their teenage years face lifetime disadvantages in health, social and economic domains. To develop effective policies to support these teenage mothers, it is important to understand how the disadvantage evolves over time to target the timing of any interventions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549126
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Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter
Conti, Gabriella; Poupakis, Stavros; Ekamper, Peter; … - 2021
This paper investigates impacts, mechanisms and selection effects of prenatal exposure to multiple shocks, by exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in the Western Netherlands (November 1944 - May 1945), pushing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651361
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Paying adolescents for health screenings works
Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schober, Thomas - 2021
With regard to their future health, adolescents are at a critical stage. Previous evaluations have shown that health … low socio-economic background. Unfortunately, adolescents tend to have little interest in preventive programmes. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603315
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Teenage Mother'S Health Across Different Life Stages
Kalb, Guyonne R.J; Vu, Ha - 2021
Many women who give birth during their teenage years face lifetime disadvantages in health, social and economic domains. To develop effective policies to support these teenage mothers, it is important to understand how the disadvantage evolves over time to target the timing of any interventions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250764
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Civil War, Crop Failure, and the Health Status of Young Children
Akresh, Richard - 2013
Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children's health several years after the shock. We calculate height for age z-scores for children under age five using data from a Rwandan nationally representative household survey conducted in 1992. We exploit district and time variation in...
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