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In the present paper we attempt to analyse the relationship between "lifestyle" and happiness in the UK using fixed … between women and men. While men seem to be more physically active and this active lifestyle impacts stronger on their … on the wellbeing of women than on the wellbeing of men. In general lifestyle variables have a significantly positive …
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The main aim of this paper is to compare the association of family structure with outcomes for young people in living in the West of Scotland (the Twenty-07 Study, N=1009) with their contemporaries living in Britain (the 1970 British Cohort Study N=11615) in the mid-1980s. A wide range of...
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There's no doubt that the risk factors typical of a certain lifestyle which may have a negative impact on human health …
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Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and...
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In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … adequate to deal with the type of lifestyle consumption goods considered here. We indicate the lines along which a model needs …
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We use the high IQ Terman sample to estimate relationships between education, socioemotional skills, and health-related outcomes that include health behaviors, lifestyles, and health measures across the lifecycle. By both focusing on a high IQ sample and controlling for IQ in regression models,...
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This paper investigates the role of lifestyles (smoking, drinking and obesity) and working conditions (physical hazards, no support from colleagues, job worries and repetitive work) on health. Three alternative systems of simultaneous multivariate probit equations are estimated, one for each...
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