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not just public health and the economy but also societies. We focus on one pillar of society - trust - and explore how … concerns about personal health or the health of loved ones, but rather by increased levels of worry and stress. Our findings … suggest that the effects of the pandemic go well beyond immediate health concerns, leading to important normative changes that …
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Using the 2012-13 American Time Use Survey, I find that both who people spend time with and how they spend it affect their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases most with additional time spent with spouse. Among...
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, are growing, and are related to several economic, social and health sector variables. Global efforts to deal with this …
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Background: A world divided by health inequalities poses ethical challenges for global health. International and … national responses to health disparities must be rooted in ethical values about health and its distribution; this is because … health justice. Aim: To study why global health inequalities are morally troubling, why efforts to reduce them are morally …
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entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status … their higher income. Physical and mental health play a crucial role in determining both an individual's occupational status … elderly individuals. However, when controlling for health, retirees exhibit an even higher level of life satisfaction compared …
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entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status … their higher income. Physical and mental health play a crucial role in determining both an individual's occupational status … elderly individuals. However, when controlling for health, retirees exhibit an even higher level of life satisfaction compared …
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Past research has provided evidence of the role of some personal characteristics as risk factors for depression. However, few studies have examined jointly their specific impact and whether country characteristics change the probability of being depressed. In general, this is due to the use of...
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Economy-wide shocks affect demand, supply, and intermediary sectors simultaneously. We dissect the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on international trade by combining information from customs records, smartphone-based human mobility, and container ship port calls. We find that local disruptions...
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This paper provides a method to classify TL3regions across OECD countries based on their level of access to metropolitan areas. TL3 regions are classified as ‘metropolitan’ if more than half of their population lives in one or more functional urban area (FUA) of at least 250 thousand...
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demographic and health surveys covering the last twenty years. Over the 1980s and 1990s, the infant mortality rate, under-5 …, especially in the 1990s, the pace of health improvement was slower than that recorded during the prior decades. In addition, the … distribution between countries of aggregate health improvements became markedly more skewed. These trends are in part explained by …
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