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Intergenerational scars: The impact of parental unemployment on individual health later in life

Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2023

This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence …. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of parental unemployment relied on plant closures as exogenous variation … of the individual labor market condition. We combined matching methods and parametric estimation to strengthen the causal …

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Firm Closures and Labor Market Policies in Europe: Evidence from Retrospective Longitudinal Data

Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Voucharas, Georgios - 2023

-employment duration, unemployment duration, and re-employment wages in the case of job displacements due to firm closures. We use … unemployment, but not in terms of wages, compared to males. Policymakers may consider the importance of implementing diverse …

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Does extreme temperature exposure take a toll on mental health? Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

Chen, Yanran; Sun, Ruochen; Chen, Xi; Qin, Xuezheng - 2023

Long-term exposure to extreme temperatures could threaten individuals' mental health and psychological wellbeing. This study aims to investigate the long-term impact of cumulative exposure to extreme temperature. Differently from existing literature, we define extreme temperature exposure in...

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The causal impact of mental health on tobacco and alcohol consumption: An instrumental variables approach

Mitrou, Francis; Nguyen, Ha Trong; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2023

The reciprocal relationship between psychiatric and substance use disorders is well-known, yet it remains largely unknown whether mental health morbidity causally leads to addictive behaviours. This paper utilises a fixed effects instrumental variables model, which is identified by time-varying...

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COVID-19 Lockdown, Home Environment, Lifestyles, and Mental Health among Preschoolers in China

Zhang, Yunting; Zhao, Jin; Yu, Zhangsheng; Wang, Guanghai; … - 2024

During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shanghai implemented lockdown measures to stop transmission of the virus. Over 26 million residents, including 0.8 million children aged 3-6, were confined at home. This study leveraged a city-wide cohort of preschool children - the Shanghai...

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Social Networks and Mental Health Outcomes: Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Experience

Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2019

Over the past two decades, more than 160 million Chinese rural workers have migrated to cities to work. They are separated from their familiar rural networks to work in an unfamiliar, and often hostile environment. Many of them thus face significant mental health challenges. This paper is the...

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The Impact of BMI on Mental Health: Further Evidence from Genetic Markers

Amin, Vikesh; Flores, Carlos A.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2019

We examine the relationship between BMI and mental health for young adults and elderly individuals using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Health & Retirement Study. While OLS estimates show that BMI is significantly associated with worse mental health in...

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The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on inequality of opportunity in psychological distress in the UK

Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2020

We use data from Wave 9 of UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) and the April 2020 Wave of the UKHLS COVID-19 survey to compare measures of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in psychological distress, as measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), before (Wave 9) and at the...

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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health among Older Intra-European Migrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Milewski, Nadja - 2020

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...

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Parental Gender Stereotypes and Student Wellbeing in China

Chu, Shuai; Zeng, Xiangquan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020

Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect student's educational performance, who are challenged by parental expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are strongly more depressed, feeling blue, unhappy, not...

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