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We estimate the causal effect of maternal education on the mental health of mother's children in late adolescence and … adulthood. Theoretical considerations are ambiguous about a causal effect of maternal education on children's mental health. To … causal protective effect of maternal education on children's mental health. Instead, our empirical results suggest a moderate …
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societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health …-specific effects, taking into account counterfactual care modes. Our results suggest null or negative effects on children's outcomes …: If children three years and older are in full-time daycare or school and, in addition, cared for by grandparents, they …
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evidence that it is due to working hours mismatch, lower work effort, reduced leisure time or differences in health status. …
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on subjective and several objective health measures. The effects are mainly driven by women and parents of minor children …This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours …
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While wind power is considered key in the transition towards net zero, there are concerns about adverse health impacts … evidence of negative effects on general, mental, or physical health in the 12-Item Short Form Survey (SF12), nor on self …-assessed health or doctor visits. We also do not find evidence for effects on suicides, an extreme measure of negative mental health …
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Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …
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, self-reported health, and presence of chronic illness as health measures. After controlling for initial health conditions …
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This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as workers freely choose their optimal working hours on the basis of their innate preferences and the hourly wage rate, outcome reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by...
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child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can …
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The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in …-hour mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired hours) have negative effects on workers´ health. In particular, we show …
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