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In this paper we empirically study the relationship between education attainment and Body Mass Index (BMI), using as theoretical reference an energy balance model. Our data consist of individual level data from eight waves of the Italian survey on life-styles. We use Quantile Regression (QR)...
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We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which …
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policies implemented in recent years in Italy have affected hospital activity. Our contribution is mainly empirical as we focus …
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We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which …
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We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children’s labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which …
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …
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This article examines the long term physical and mental health effects of internal migration. We use data from Italy … that allows us to study a relatively unique migration experience from Southern and Northeastern regions of Italy to … impacts on women and men and between "early" and "late" migrants. We use finite mixture models to account for heterogeneity in …
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We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents … left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel … positive effect of the migration of daughters on parents' health and life satisfaction, but no such beneficial effects when …
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severity of workrelated accidents. We combine administrative data on work-place accidents in Italy with the Labour Force Survey …
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from the home country affect the decision to work of immigrants in Italy, using the National Survey of Households with … Immigrants. Following the "epidemiological approach", we relate the probability of being employed in Italy for immigrant women … gender role model. Controlling for a number of individual and household characteristics, we show that participation in the …
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