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 …

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. …

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 …

Women bear a disproportionate share of the health and time burden associated with lack of access to modern energy. We … study the impact of clean energy access on adult health and labour supply outcomes by exploiting a nationwide rollout of a … clean cooking fuel program in Indonesia. We find that access to clean cooking fuel led to an improvement in women's health …

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 …

This paper aims to explore the interrelation between health and work decisions of elderly workers, taking the various … ways in which health and work can influence each other explicitly into account. For this, two issues are of relevance. Self …-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empirical analyses and research indicates that these may be endogenous, state …

’ 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 …

countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …

This paper explores the interrelation between health and work decisions of older workers. For this, two issues are of … relevance. Firstly, health and work may be endogenously related because of direct effects of health on work and vice versa, and … because of unobservables that may relate observed health and work outcomes. Secondly, social surveys usually contain self …