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We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include models accounting for several confounders, regional and...
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measures across regimes, including information on living space and self-reported health, and relevant inequality and mobility …
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: direct effects on health, nutrition, and wellbeing, and indirect effects through changes in economic systems, markets, and …
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-nationals who remained in Ukraine. Specifically, we identify the determinants of happiness, trust and self-declared health, and the …. Having suffered violence, however, has a lasting adverse impact on the happiness, trust and health of Ukrainians in Poland …
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is limited. We analyze the impact of education on mental health using survey data on self-reported health of Turkish … 5 to 8 years in 1997. The results suggest that education has a favorable effect on mental health, physical health, and … show that each spouse's education has a favorable impact on women's mental health, but the effect of husbands' education …
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Culture is an under-studied determinant of health production and seldom measured. This paper empirically examines the … persistence and association of health capital assessments of first and second-generation migrants with that of their ancestral … persistence of health assessments. Culture persists, rather than fades, and further, appears to strengthen over generations. We …
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health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …
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We use the UK Time-Use Survey 2014/15 to analyze how differences in the frequency and intensity of social contacts contribute to the gap in experienced well-being between employed and unemployed persons. We observe that people generally enjoy being with others more than being alone. The...
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Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network …. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer … diagnosis (CD), on the health and well-being of an individual's partner. We rely on data from a longitudinal sample of …
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-term physical and mental health and subjective well-being. There is weak, but not robust, evidence for increased satisfaction with … physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a …
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