We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

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 …

out electronic health cards (eHC) which allow immediate direct access to the health system for asylum-seekers. In this … paper, we examine whether being eligible to the eHC as a result of the policy change has had an effect on the health … Gesundheit der zuletzt zugezogenen Asylbewerberinnen und Asylbewerber ausgewirkt hat. Für die empirische Untersuchung nutzen wir …

Depression, a common and serious illness that is more prevalent among the poor, may limit the demand for health … novel health product, hand sanitizer, in India. We cross-randomize depression treatment (pharmacotherapy) and free … well as product use. Depression treatment improves mental health and increases willingness to pay by 5 percent, implying …

How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well …-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock … market accumulations may not inform this question if the effect of wealth on health is asymmetric. We use exogenous variation …

This paper analyses the short- and long-term effects of retirement on mental health in ten European countries. It … health, but a large negative longer-term impact. This impact survives a battery of robustness tests, and applies to women and … making pension systems solvent, but with time could also pay a mental health dividend among the elderly and reduce public …

This study investigates the processes through which transformational leaders influence employee psychological health … positive relationship between transformational leadership and psychological health. This study supports the notion that …

This study uses longitudinal data and four different measures of mental health to tease out the impact of psychiatric … disorder onsets and recoveries on employment outcomes. Results suggest that developing a mental health problem leads to a … to work among the not employed with a mental health problem. No consistent effect was found on hours worked and earnings …

People experience multiple changes in their lives after retirement which can affect their mental health. In this paper …, we examine the mediating impact of grandparental childcare in the effect of retirement on mental health among elderly … health into a direct effect, and an indirect effect mediated through grandparental childcare. We find that retirement …