We estimate the effect of BMI on mental health for young adults and elderly individuals using data from the National … Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Health & Retirement Study. To tackle confounding due to unobserved factors, we … attainment) that may invalidate this IV. We find a large statistically significant effect of BMI on mental health for the elderly …

, this paper provides the first causal evidence of the physical and mental health consequences of self-employment … self-employment (opportunity entrepreneurship) lead to health enhancements for entrepreneurs with and without employees …Drawing upon theoretical insights from the Job Demand-Control model, which links occupational characteristics to health …

Based on comprehensive administrative health record data from Austria, this study examines how children's mental health … responds to a severe parental health shock. To account for the endogeneity of a serious parental illness, our sample is … restricted to children who experience the health shock of a parent at some point in time and we exploit the timing of shocks in a …

parental childcare time, worsens mental health, and contributes to an increase in one-parent households. …

outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of migraine …

This paper examines the effect of postpartum depression (PPD) on maternal employment in the UK and assesses the extent … of the direct and indirect link between PPD and maternal employment up to eleven years after the birth of the child. The … study tests a range of factors (marital status, physical longstanding health problems, mental health problems, children …

This paper considers the relationship between local economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches … mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is conducted at differing levels … downturns are associated with improved health. Further investigation reveals that county economic conditions have an independent …

-- subjective well-being ; unreported income ; informal income ; education ; unemployment ; non-employment ; subjective … health …

This paper considers the relationship between local economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches … mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is conducted at differing levels … downturns are associated with improved health. Further investigation reveals that county economic conditions have an independent …

status (SES) during childhood - educational attainment, and later life health and employment (at ages 50-64). We find that … through increased individual educational attainment and later life health and employment …Using data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe, this paper provides empirical evidence for the …