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Socio-Economic Determinants of Health in Croatia: Insights from Four Cross-Sectional Surveys
Cipin, Ivan; Smolic, Sime - In: Croatian Economic Survey 15 (2013) 1, pp. 25-60
odds model was applied for the ordinal outcome variable. Controlling for age and other socio-demographic characteristics … highly correlated with low education and lowest income levels. Public policy-makers should be aware that measures targeted at …
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Recession depression: Mental health effects of the 2008 stock market crash
McInerney, Melissa; Mellor, Jennifer M.; Nicholas, … - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 6, pp. 1090-1104
Do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? We use exogenous variation in the interview dates of the 2008 Health and Retirement Study to assess the impact of large wealth losses on mental health among older U.S. adults. We compare cross-wave changes in wealth and mental health for...
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Adolescent predictors of unemployment and disability pension across the life course – a longitudinal study of selection in 49 321 Swedish men
Lundin, Andreas; Hemmingsson, Tomas - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2013
unfair treatment. Unemployment before age 18 was found to be associated with unemployment across the life course, and also …
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Does income deprivation affect people’s mental well-being?
Cuesta, Maite Blázquez; Budría, Santiago - Banco de España - 2013
impact of income deprivation upon individual mental well-being. Unobserved heterogeneity is controlled for by means of a … paper shows that, for a given household income, a less favourable relative position in the income distribution is associated … deviation increase in income deprivation is found to be as harmful as a reduction in permanent household income of almost 30 …
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Family Ruptures and Intergenerational Transmission of Stress
Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
The high and rapidly increasing prevalence of mental illnesses underscores the importance of understanding their causal origins. This paper analyzes one factor at a critical stage of human development: exposure to maternal stress from family ruptures during the fetal period. We find that in...
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Exploring the intergenerational persistence of mental health: Evidence from three generations
Johnston, David W.; Schurer, Stefanie; Shields, Michael A. - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 6, pp. 1077-1089
lasting effects on the child's educational attainment, future household income and the probability of having criminal …
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The Effects of Bullying in Elementary School
Eriksen, Tine Louise Mundbjerg; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; … - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2012
Bullying is a widespread social phenomenon. We show that both children who are being bullied and children who bully suffer in terms of long-term outcomes. We rely on rich survey and register-based data for children born in a region of Denmark during 1990-1992, which allows us to carefully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851157
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Evidence on the long shadow of poor mental health across three generations.
Johnston, David W.; Schurer, Stefanie; Shields, Michael - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2012
mental health reduces household income for their adult offspring by around 2 percent. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010602588
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Moving Up and Sliding Down: An Empirical Assessment of the Effect of Social Mobility on Subjective Wellbeing
Dolan, Paul; Lordan, Grace - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
Many people remain in the same income group as their parents and this is a cause of much discussion and some concern …. Our SWB measures encapsulate life satisfaction and mental health. We find that relative income mobility is a significant … predictor of life satisfaction and mental health whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610736
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Moving up and sliding down: An empirical assessment of the effect of social mobility on subjective wellbeing
Dolan, P.; Lordan, G. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013
Many people remain in the same income group as their parents and this is a cause of much discussion and some concern …. Our SWB measures encapsulate life satisfaction and mental health. We find that relative income mobility is a significant … predictor of life satisfaction and mental health whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640505