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Rationale: Physical pain is one of the most severe of human experiences. It is thus one of the most important to understand. Objective: This paper reports the first cross-country study of the links between physical pain and the state of the economy. A key issue examined is how the level of pain...
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previous findings of larger pandemic effects on mental health of women …
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how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental … health is positively associated with own and spousal income. However, it is negatively linked to the wife's relative income …. Crossing the threshold where the wife starts earning more increases the likelihood of a mental health diagnosis by 8-12 per …
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covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that … several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight … and reduce their probability of being underweight. No effect is observed on girls of similar age. These health indicators …
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This paper examines the effects of education on health and hospitalization over the life cycle. Using administrative … showing that these effects vary heterogeneously over the life-cycle - with the largest health improvements occurring among men …
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. Ultimately, the effects on longer-run outcomes (subjective health, wellbeing, education) are grave and similar for both genders. …
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Sex ratios at birth shape populations and are linked to maternal health and gender discrimination. We estimate the … girls. These findings demonstrate that climate change harms maternal health, increases prenatal mortality, and reduces … engagement with the health system. …
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health conditions or developmental delays in early childhood. Using prefecture-level panel data, we confirm that improvements …
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This paper identifies how parental health shocks lead to long-term gender-specific penalty on adult children … parental health shocks on adult children's labor supply. The results reveal that there is no significant change in male … response to parental health deterioration. We then employ an event-study approach to provide causal evidence on the effects of …
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once the shock is over. Specifically, we focus on individuals who were children during World War II and assess the …-collected historical data on the number of livestock at the local level with microdata on eating habits, health outcomes, and food … individuals who as children were more exposed to meat scarcity tend to consume relatively more meat and spend more on food during …
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