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obesity. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and reversed causality we find evidence that household debt also causally … employed individuals, and (c) lagged debt variables to rule out problems of reverse causality. We apply different measures of … precarious debt situation). We find all debt measures to be strongly correlated with health satisfaction, mental health, and …
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We use information from the last wave of the Spanish Survey of Households Finance to study the influence of debt on the … smaller MPC than non-indebted households. This negative association increases along with the amount of debt. We also find a …
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Depression affects the way that people process information and make decisions, including those involving risk and uncertainty. Our objective is to analyze the way that depressive episodes shape risk preferences and risk-taking behaviors. We are the first to address this issue using large-scale,...
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Depression affects the way that people process information and make decisions, including those involving risk and uncertainty. Our objective is to analyze the way that depressive episodes shape risk preferences and risk-taking behaviors. We are the first to address this issue using large-scale,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011999014
weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food …
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people’s lifestyles have exacerbated the challenges of improving population diet and reducing obesity levels. …
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weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715829
We examine the relationship between BMI and mental health for young adults and elderly individuals using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Health & Retirement Study. While OLS estimates show that BMI is significantly associated with worse mental health in...
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-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates … are likely to cause severe household indebtedness. Unemployment also worsens the relative debt situation mainly due to the …
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. Yet, despite its importance, educational debt is not well understood. Among the reasons is that there exist few central … analysis of the historical and current levels of student debt and how those loans are performing. We also briefly discuss the …
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