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Isolation and well-being in the time of lockdown

Bourdeau-Lepage, Lise; Kotosz, Balázs - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 8 (2021) 2, pp. 83-97

In response to the Covid 19 health crisis, the French government has imposed various measures, referred to as social-distancing measures, including a lockdown with the primary objective of reducing face-to-face interactions between people in order to limit the spread of the virus. This paper...

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Loneliness and health of older adults: The role of cultural heritage and relationship quality

Casabianca, Elizabeth J.; Kovacic, Matija - 2022

We estimate the direct causal effect of loneliness on a variety of health outcomes using a sample of second …-generation immigrants among older adults drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. In an effort to account for the … endogeneity of self-declared loneliness, we explore the link between loneliness and a specific trait of maternal cultural …

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Social interactions, loneliness and health: A new angle on an old debate

Casabianca, Elizabeth; Kovacic, Matija - 2024

predeftned behavioural standards and attitudes towards loneliness. Focusing on a sub-population of second-generation immigrants … loneliness. Subsequently, we show the validity of the identifted trait as an instrument for loneliness in a two-stage model for … health. We also ftnd that loneliness has a direct impact on body mass index and speciftc mental health issues, with these …

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Loneliness and health of older adults : the role of cultural heritage and relationship quality

Casabianca, Elizabeth J.; Kovacic, Matija - 2022 - This version: 04/04/2022

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Social interactions, loneliness and health : a new angle on an old debate

Casabianca, Elizabeth J.; Kovacic, Matija - 2024

predefined behavioural standards and attitudes towards loneliness. Focusing on a sub-population of second-generation immigrants … loneliness. Subsequently, we show the validity of the identified trait as an instrument for loneliness in a two-stage model for … health. We also ftnd that loneliness has a direct impact on body mass index and specific mental health issues, with these …

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Determinants of Heat Risk in an Aging Population: A Machine Learning Approach

Klauber, Hannah; Koch, Nicolas - 2023

This paper identifies individual and regional risk factors for hospitalizations caused by heat within the German population over 65 years of age. Using administrative insurance claims data and a machine-learning-based regression model, we causally estimate heterogeneous heat effects and explore...

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Determinants of heat risk in an aging population : a machine learning approach

Klauber, Hannah; Koch, Nikolas - 2023

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Social aspects of the population’s health level and influence factors

CICEA, Claudiu; ALEXANDRU, Gheorghe - In: Economia. Seria Management 12 (2009) 1, pp. 193-203

Sociological reflection on medicine and health is based, on the one hand, on the multidimensional reality of the „health" phenomenon and on the other hand, on the old sense of sociology which is, according to its founders, a science of welfare and human freedom. In this respect, the problems...

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Regional income inequality lowers life satisfaction : evidence from OECD countries ; conference paper

Kalenborn, Christine; Lessmann, Christian - 2014 - This version: February 2014

This paper analyzes the e ffect of regional income inequality within countries on individual life satisfaction. We use data from the World Values Survey (WVS) and the European Values Survey (EVS) containing approximately 97,000 observations from 1981-2008. Regional income inequality is measured...

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Entitlements and Capabilities

Reddy, Sanjay G.; Daoud, Adel - 2018

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