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Synthetic pesticides can be detrimental to the health of humans, particularly when handled inappropriately, which is … pesticide application can mitigate the detrimental health effects of pesticides. Our empirical analysis is based on data from … organic cotton farmers who are only allowed to use bio-pesticides. Using per-capita health expenditure as proxy for the health …
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This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio …) cross-sectional causality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health that complement self …-reported measures of health status. Not only does using the panel structure with individual fixed effects mitigate the bias from …
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There is growing evidence that foreign-born workers are over represented in physically demanding and dangerous jobs with relatively higher injury hazard rates. Given this pattern, do increasing inflows of foreign-born workers alleviate native workers' exposure to injuries? This paper provides...
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We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i … physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are largely …
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We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i … physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are largely …
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We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end … selfemployment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure … for self-reported physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self …
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A rich literature has studied the effect of job insecurity on health. However the causal link between these two … variables remains unclear. We study the relationship between perceived job insecurity and health using longitudinal data on … of the dataset compared to previous studies on job insecurity and health allows us to apply different estimation methods …
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We analyze whether field of study assigned at age 16 impacts mental health in adulthood. Using a regression … discontinuity design that exploits GPA cut-offs, we find that admission to the preferred study field improves mental health …, lowering both the incidence of antidepressant prescriptions and of mental health-related hospitalizations. Engineering …
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, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome di- mension. Second, we apply a semi …
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, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352305