Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically … investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal … heterogeneity. Using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data the paper reveals that unemployment decreases the mental health of …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …

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 …

lower health or socioeconomic status prior to job loss exhibit high rates of smoking initiation. The applied regression …

incentives for the lowskilled and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on annual …

self-employment and the consequences of unemployment rather than from advantages of self-employment. …

Although unemployment likely entails various externalities, research examining its spillover effects on spouses is … scarce. This is the first paper to estimate effects of unemployment on the smoking behavior of both spouses. Using German …-double-selection method for control-variable selection via Lasso regressions. One spouse's unemployment increases both spouses' smoking …

changes is, nonetheless, strongly debated. We contribute to this discussion by analyzing the effect of unemployment on LOC … unemployment. Overall, we find a significant shift in stated LOC due to unemployment. Because the effect is observable during … unemployment only and not heterogeneous with respect to individual characteristics or unemployment duration, we conclude that only …