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' health. We find that longer working hours increase smoking and decrease self-reported health, and that these impacts are …Does working time affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which reduced the …
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working hours on self-reported health and positive effects on smoking and body mass index, though the latter is imprecisely …Does working time causally affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which … exogenous to workers' health. Difference-in-differences and lagged dependent variable regressions reveal a negative effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653252
working hours on self-reported health and positive effects on smoking and body mass index, though the latter is imprecisely …Does working time causally affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which … exogenous to workers' health. Difference-in-differences and lagged dependent variable regressions reveal a negative effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607590
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 poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498368
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 poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513188
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 poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210814
The relationship between lifestyle choices and health has been widely studied in the epidemiological and economic … a health production function and reduced form equations for lifestyles. As a result, behaviors toward health are taken … to be determined by exogenous socio-economic variables. In this article, we show that health is a key determinant of …
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This is a short paper analyzing the potential effects of a targeted school-building program on health indicators. The … program led to increases in body mass index (BMI) among the underweight. There seems to be a positive correlation between KGBV … exposure and probability of being in the "healthy" band of BMI indicators. …
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In this study, we analyse the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health in adulthood … age reduces the long-term risk to smoke, improves long-term health, and affects physical rather than mental health. In …
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sample. The increase in smoking, which is a significant cause of poor infant health, may partly explain why Medicaid …Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal …
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