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German Socioeconomic Panel that well-being is influenced by relative BMI. Highly educated people see themselves as fatter …
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weakens self-control and undermines human well-being. Consistent with a pessimistic view, we show that psychological distress …
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The literature on Happiness and Subjective Well-Being (SWB) has been dominated by studies of the impact from income and …
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There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well-being … between children and subjective well-being is positive only in developed countries, and for those who become parents after the …
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subjective well-being suggesting that it relieves the stress related to work-family conflict. Moreover, we find substantial …
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Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between … childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height … shrinkage from aging. Height shrinkage, in turn may be correlated with health conditions and socio-economic status from …
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This paper presents a model of consumption and household production that takes into account substitution between health-related goods that are produced at home and those produced commercially as well as substitution between goods produced at home by oneself and those produced by one's spouse or...
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Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s. In this paper, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group...
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, socio-emotional behavior, and school outcomes, as well as parental well-being. Based on representative German panel data …
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We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure...
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