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Sinners or Saints? Preachers' Kids and Risky Health Behaviors
Delaney, Jason J.; Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines parental influence on adolescent risky behavior, focusing on a unique population: children of the clergy, more commonly known as preachers' kids (PKs). We use latent variable and zero-inflated count models to analyze the effect of being a PK on both uptake and intensity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265649
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Gender Differences in the Effects of Behavioral Problems on School Outcomes
Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.; Smith, Nina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
large region in Denmark. The sample is merged with register information on parents and students observed until the age of 19 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156455
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Does in utero Exposure to Illness Matter? The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Taiwan as a Natural Experiment
Lin, Ming-Jen; Liu, Elaine M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions affect long-run developmental outcomes. Combining several historical and current datasets, we find that cohorts in utero during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891167
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Health Behaviors and Education in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Karaoglan, Deniz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
consumption, exercise and body mass index (BMI). We find that in Turkey education is the most important factor that affects the … health behaviors. The results indicate that smoking is positively associated with education at all levels with a decreasing … effect with the level of education unlike in the developed countries. This result indicates that smoking is a serious public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010786983
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Resilience to Economic Shocks and the Long Reach of Childhood Bullying
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
,000 children into adulthood, we show that the negative effect of unemployment on mental health and life satisfaction is almost four … times larger for workers who had been bullied a lot in their early life. We also find zero adaptation to unemployment for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010585695
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A pint a day raises a man’s pay; but smoking blows that gain away
Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper studies the wage effects of the use of alcohol and tobacco. The analysis based on a recent survey in the Netherlands shows that for males the use of tobacco has a negative wage effect of about 10% while the use of alcohol has a positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822520
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Climbing the Drug Staircase: A Bayesian Analysis of the Initiation of Hard Drug Use
Bretteville-Jensen, Anne Line; Jacobi, Liana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Empirical studies have found that cannabis commonly precedes consumption of drugs like amphetamine, ecstasy, cocaine and heroin. As a result a causal linkage between cannabis and subsequent hard drug use has been hypothesized. Despite mixed empirical evidence and a limited understanding of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822523
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Long Shadows of History: Persecution in Central Europe and Its Labor Market Consequences
Myck, Michal; Bohacek, Radim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We analyze the extent and effects of job-related persecution under communist regimes in the Czech Republic and Poland using a representative sample of individuals aged 50+ from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Retrospective information collected in the SHARELIFE interview...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371885
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Workplace Health Promotion and Labour Market Performance of Employees
Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
savings for public transfer schemes such as unemployment or early retirement benefits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791516
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Gender Differences in Sickness Absence and the Gender Division of Family Responsibilities
Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and long-term effects of parenthood in a within-couple analysis based on the timing of parenthood. We find that after entering parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010658710