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life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However …
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Ill-health is commonly believed to be detrimental for labor market outcomes. Yet, causal evidence mostly comes from … analyses of severe shocks, whereas minor variations in health are not only more common but also a better target for prevention … prior to the date of a survey interview. Weather conditions are capable of affecting peoples' health. While bad weather …
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Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …
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Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011972451
Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia … survey (waves 2001-2014), we construct measures of unexpected health shocks for each year, using information on respondents …
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-run delay in return to work, which might rationalize a negative causal health effect. Breaking down the results by mothers’ pre …-birth health status suggests that the higher incidence of long-term sickness absence among the treated may be explained by the fact … that the reform has facilitated re-entry of a negative health selection into the labor market. …
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Previous literature has identified income, poor health and social relationships as the most important predictors of … representative longitudinal data for Germany (1992- 2019) with about 570,000 observations for more than 88,000 individuals aged 16 … effects estimation to control for cohort effects and unobserved personal characteristics, we find that the marginal effects of …
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This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three … years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life …
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child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …
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