significant costs that are borne by displaced workers. We study how job displacement in Norway affects cardiovascular health using … a sample of men and women who are predominantly aged in their early forties. To do so we merge survey data on health and … health behaviors with register data on person and firm characteristics. We track the health of displaced and non …

This study investigates the impact of childhood health on labor market outcomes. We used type 1 diabetes as an … instrument of health because its cause is multifactorial and it is triggered by a complex combination of genetic and … health shock. Using data from the Swedish Childhood Diabetes Register and national registers on education, employment, and …

rates and school performance, health, labor supply, and lifetime income. Males and high ability children gain significantly … Swedish longitudinal dataset that links information from a large survey on children’s time preferences at age 13 to …

This paper set out to examine the relevance of the African Traditional Medicine in Health Care Delivery Services in … earliest medical care in Nigeria. Secondly, the World Health Organisation has recognized the need to integrate the traditional … information on the relevance of traditional medicine in the Health Care Delivery system in Nigeria. Participant observation method …

There is a persistent association between health and portfolio choice, but hardly anything is known about the … longitudinal data to take into account and explain unobserved heterogeneity in the association between health and portfolio choice …

This paper estimates the causal effect of perceived job insecurity – i.e. the fear of involuntary job loss – on health … potential endogeneity of job insecurity is not accounted for, the latter appears to deteriorate almost all health outcomes. When … tackling the endogeneity issue by estimating an IV model and dealing with potential weak-instrument issues, the health …

The dynamic relationships between “martial arts”, society and health remain unclear, particularly due to research that … typically views health in a purely biomedical and compartmentalized way. Martial arts and combat sports (MACS) offer a diversity …), such as Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) and Wing Chun Kung Fu, stress health promotion/preservation, personal development and …