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Health, personality disorders, work commitment and training to employment transitions
Patzina, Alexander; Dietrich, Hans; Barabasch, Anton - 2022
This study analyzes the influence of mental and physical health, coping abilities, cooperativeness, and work commitment … transitions. Overall health, coping abilities and work commitment are important in terms of finding decent employment. However … and contains information on their schooling, health, personality disorders and work attitudes. The register data measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814239
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The COVID-19 pandemic, well-being, and transitions to post-secondary education
Sandner, Malte; Patzina, Alexander; Anger, Silke; … - 2021
dimensions of well-being: mental health problems, self-rated health, and life satisfaction for 3,697 students. Data is collected …, we show that a strong decline in mental health is associated with changes in educational and career plans and transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651697
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The COVID-19 pandemic, well-being, and transitions to post-secondary education
Sandner, Malte; Patzina, Alexander; Anger, Silke; … - 2021
dimensions of well-being: mental health problems, self-rated health, and life satisfaction for 3,697 students. Data is collected …, we show that a strong decline in mental health is associated with changes in educational and career plans and transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012795774
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The political competition over life and death: Evidence from infant mortality in India
Kjelsrud, Anders; Moene, Karl Ove; Vandewalle, Lore - 2020
government health centers located in constituencies with low political competition and high inequality are disfavored, indicating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012429363
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"Eat, my child" - overweight and obesity among children in developing countries
Minos, Dimitrios - 2016
Childhood obesity in developing countries is a topic that hasn’t found its way in the economic literature yet. Despite the fact that obesity rates are rising worldwide and the phenomenon is very present even among the poorest of households in developing countries, most of the attention is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422908
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The impacts of piped water on water quality, sanitation, hygiene and health in rural households of north-western Bangladesh : a quasi-experimental analysis
Hasan, Mohammad Monirul; Gerber, Nikolaus - 2016
We investigated the impacts of piped water on water quality, sanitation, hygiene and health outcomes in marginalized … group of households to identify gains in water-sanitation, hygiene and health outcomes. We found that the BMDA piped water … health benefits, such as decreased diarrhea incidence of in under-five children, improved child anthropometrics stunting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011503129
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"Globesity"? : the effects of globalization on obesity and caloric intake
Costa-Font, Joan; Mas, Núria - 2014
This study considers the effects of globalization, in its economic and social dimensions, on obesity and caloric intake. In assessing these effects using longitudinal analysis, this study adopts an extensive list of controls to account for compositional changes and effects, as well as different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412876
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"The better you feel, the harder you fall": health perception biases and mental health among Chinese adults during the COVID-19 pandemic
Nie, Peng; Wang, Lu; Dragone, Davide; Lu, Haiyang; … - 2021
The health risks of the current COVID-19 pandemic, together with the drastic mitigation measures taken in many affected … nations, pose an obvious threat to public mental health. The social science literature has already established a clear link … between mental health and sociodemographic as well as economic factors, and a growing number of studies investigate the role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705695
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The political competition over life and death : evidence from infant mortality in India
Kjelsrud, Anders; Moene, Karl Ove; Vandewalle, Lore - 2020
government health centers located in constituencies with low political competition and high inequality are disfavored, indicating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207286
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Transition welfare gaps : one closed, another to follow?
Obrizan, Maksym - 2020
-rated health. While the first welfare gap in happiness has closed recently, the second transition gap in self-perceived gap only …-rated health. Although the gap in self-perceived health for transition nations in Eastern Europe is present in a basic model, it … "Good" or "Very Good" health compared to other transition and non-transition countries. Controlling for communist party …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149007