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Personality and Mental Health: The Role and Substitution Effect of Emotional Stability and Conscientiousness

Wehner, Caroline; Schils, Trudie; Borghans, Lex - 2016

A growing number of economic studies show that low emotional stability is typically negatively related to socioeconomic outcomes, while conscientiousness predicts desirable results. However, possible mechanisms behind these relations are far less explored. Gaining insights into the mechanisms is...

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The Bilateral Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Employment Status

Bubonya, Melisa; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Ribar, David C. - 2017

This paper analyzes the bilateral relationship between depressive symptoms and employment status. We find that severe depressive symptoms are partially a consequence of economic inactivity. The incidence of depressive symptoms is higher if individuals have been out of a job for an extended...

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Evaluating the Effects of a Targeted Home Visiting Program on Maternal and Child Health Outcomes

Sandner, Malte; Cornelissen, Thomas; Jungmann, Tanja; … - 2017

We evaluate the effects of home visiting targeted towards disadvantaged first-time mothers on maternal and child health outcomes. Our analysis exploits a randomized controlled trial and combines rich longitudinal survey data with unique administrative health data. In a context in which the...

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Income deprivation and mental well-being: The role of non-cognitive skills

Cuesta, Maite Blázquez; Budría, Santiago - In: Economics & Human Biology 17 (2015) C, pp. 16-28

We show that the positive relation between income deprivation and mental health is affected by an individual's non …-cognitive skills. Income deprivation is operationalized as the Yitzhaki index, i.e., as a function of the sum of income differences … at alleviating the well-being costs of income deprivation. …

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Poor vision among China's rural primary school students: Prevalence, correlates and consequences

Yi, Hongmei; Zhang, Linxiu; Ma, Xiaochen; Congdon, Nathan; … - In: China Economic Review 33 (2015) C, pp. 247-262

Using a survey of 19,977 children in two provinces, this paper explores the prevalence, correlates and potential consequences of poor vision among children in China's vast but understudied rural areas. We find that 24% of sample students suffer from reduced uncorrected visual acuity in either...

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Problemy zdrowotne polskich emigrantow poakcesyjnych. Implikacje dla systemow opieki zdrowotnej. (Health problems of Polish post-accession migrants. Implications for health care sy...

Smolen, Agata - In: Problemy Zarzadzania 11 (2013) 41, pp. 227-239

Economic migration entails a higher health risk, due to types of work performed by immigrants, their living conditions and lifestyle changes. The increased health risk concerns especially infectious diseases (including sexually-transmitted diseases), accidents and injuries, musculoskeletal...

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Evidence on the long shadow of poor mental health across three generations

Johnston, David W.; Schurer, Stefanie; Shields, Michael A. - 2011

mental health reduces household income for their adult offspring by around 2 percent. …

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Getting Stuck in the Blues: Persistence of Mental Health Problems in Australia

Roy, John R.; Schurer, Stefanie - 2013

such a low score again a year later, indicating a strong element of state dependence in depression. Low income is a strong …

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Mental health assimilation of Australian immigrants

Janisch, Laura M. - 2017

Mental diseases are a widespread phenomenon and trigger massive direct and indirect costs. Using Australian household survey data this study analyzes assimilation of immigrants' mental health over time. Therefore, this study contributes to the literature since previous literature has focused...

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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health among Older Intra-European Migrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Milewski, Nadja - 2020

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...

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