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Early Cannabis Use and School to Work Transition of Young Men

Williams, Jenny; van Ours, Jan C. - 2017

We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect se- lection into cannabis use and the transition from school to work using a multivariate mixed proportional hazard...

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Cognitive Misperception and Chronic Disease Awareness: Evidence from Blood Biomarker Data

Lin, Zhuoer; Fu, Mingqi; Chen, Xi - 2023

measures and were stronger for less educated rural residents or those living without children. Cognitive misperception poses …

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Household Wealth and Body Mass Index: Towards a Healthy Ageing?

Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2023

Studying the impact of exogenous wealth shocks on health-related outcomes can help policymakers in the design and evaluation of social programs that provide income to certain groups. This paper analyzes the impact of unexpected inheritances on Body Mass Index, using data from the Survey of...

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

Casabianca, Elizabeth; Kovacic, Matija - 2024

This paper investigates the relationship between historically rooted norms that drive individuals to adhere to predeftned behavioural standards and attitudes towards loneliness. Focusing on a sub-population of second-generation immigrants, we identify an intergenerationally transmitted component...

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Children's Residential Proximity, Spousal Presence and Dementia Risk

Lin, Zhuoer; Yin, Xuecheng; Levy, Becca R.; Yuan, Yue; … - 2024

becoming increasingly crucial. This study examines the role of children's residential proximity and spousal presence with … from the Health and Retirement Study (1995-2018). Family support was categorized by spousal presence and children …, with either no spouse (46.9%) or all children living over 10 miles away (25.3%). Those with less available family support …

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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence

Constant, Amelie F. - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

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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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Health Inequality among Chinese Older Adults: The Role of Childhood Circumstances

Yan, Binjian; Chen, Xi; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020

health, self-rated health to mortality. Our analytic sample includes about 8,000 Chinese persons age above 60. Using the …

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‘More Children, More Happiness?’: New Evidence from Elderly Parents in China

Gao, Yanyan; Qu, Zhaopeng - 2019

In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of ‘more children, more happiness’ by exploiting … square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents’ subjective well-being (SWB …) measured with either life satisfaction or depression mood. The effect is channelled by raising their satisfaction with children …

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Solar cycles and time allocation of children and adolescents

Nguyen, Ha Trong; Zubrick, Stephen R.; Mitrou, Francis - 2024

This study explores the allocation of time, particularly to sleep, among children and adolescents in response to daily … sleep duration, while children of mothers with lower education or unemployment exhibit a subtle impact. These insights …

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