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are less healthy. Most previous studies which have claimed that pets confer health benefits were cross-sectional. So they … associated with health. The German data come from the German Socio-Economic Panel in which respondents have been interviewed …
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. This paper uses data from SHARELIFE to shed light on the long-term consequences of involuntary job loss on health. The … considered to be exogenous to the individual, and lay-offs, where the causal direction of health and unemployment is ambiguous … health to assess long-term health consequences of job loss, which has to have occurred at least 25 years before the current …
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zwar die Gesundheit der AnwohnerInnen positiv beeinflussen, jedoch ihre Lebenszufriedenheit temporär verringern. Abhängig …
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Eine langanhaltende hohe Arbeitsintensität kann eine gesundheitsgefährdende Belastung für Beschäftigte darstellen. Für eine angemessene Gestaltung der Arbeit sind Kenntnisse von Determinanten dauerhaft erhöhter Arbeitsintensität von zentraler Bedeutung. Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich...
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This study investigates the effects of maternal education on child's health and health behavior. We draw on a rich … effects on health behavior for adolescent daughters, but neither for adolescent sons nor for the health status of newborns. We …'s health behavior, assortative mating, household income, and child¿s schooling track as possible channels of the estimated …
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A huge literature shows that childhood health and educational attainment are highly correlated. However, estimates for … the effect of childhood health on educational attainment under risk generally confound the effect of liquidity constraints … and of lack of insurance against risk. It is unclear whether the correlation between health and education under uninsured …
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The policies for better health, poverty reduction, and less inequality, throughout the world, require thorough … understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income …). This is deemed difficult, contingent, and only partially understood. The adage 'health is wealth' is still, primarily, an …
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Of the world's 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars per person per day and another 1.7 billion lived on between $1.25 and $2.50 PPP dollars (Chen and Ravallion, 2012). The scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the...
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Some countries fail to ensure that their citizens and businesses make an appropriate contribution to the financing of public tasks. But not all countries with a low tax ratio automatically fall into this category. This paper presents an approach to bridge the gap between probabilistic statements...
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