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, family acceptance, and economic conditions bear an association with self-rated physical and mental health of sexual … minorities. Social rejection bears a negative association with physical and mental health. Family acceptance shares a positive … association with physical and mental health. Periods characterized by worse economic conditions (2013-2014 versus 2018 …
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Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the … opposite direction? This paper shows that the behavior of family structure variables over the life cycle dramatically changes … child with health problems when women enter the last decade of their reproductive life. I present a simple theoretical model …
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children aged below five years. Using detailed dataset from the current and fourth round of the National Family Health Survey … child health outcomes, we find that while domestic violence primarily affects child health via deterioration in maternal … health, neglect of children in terms of inadequate provision of essential child care also seem to matter. The results from …
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Despite the harmful effects of intimate partner abuse (IPA) on child health, survivors with children often continue in … children's health. These findings stay robust across several identification techniques, including instrumental variables …, sequential difference-in-differences, and event studies. The effects seem to be driven by worsening physical and mental health of …
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We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women … persistent negative implications on women's physical and mental health that is not just limited to the time of menstruation. …
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health. We also ftnd that loneliness has a direct impact on body mass index and specific mental health issues, with these … emphasising the pivotal role of attitudes in predicting significant economic and health outcomes, thus opening up a new pathway …
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, using an online sample of approximately 1,500 Prolific respondents residents in the UK. We find that women's mental health … and housework more than men. Neither the gender gaps in COVID-19-related health and economic concerns nor the gender gaps … find that the gender gap in mental health can be partially accounted for by the difference in COVID-19-related health …
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this paper, we examine the potential effect of the rise of robotic technology on health. The results of the analysis … suggest that higher penetration of industrial robots in the local labor market is positively related to the health of the low … of low-skilled individuals reporting poor health. Further analysis suggests that reallocation of tasks and reduction in …
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Shocks to health have been shown to reduce labour supply for the individual affected. Less is known about household … self-insurance through a partner's response to a health shock. Previous studies have presented inconclusive empirical … households both the labour supply and informal care responses of an individual to the event of an acute health shock to their …
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Publicly financed Community Based-Health Insurance (CBHI) schemes are typically implemented in developing countries to … foster healthcare utilization and improve health outcomes among low-income households. Using the Demographic and Health … Survey from 2005 to 2016, we estimate the effects of the Ethiopian CBHI on children's health. Difference …
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