Hoda El-Enbaby,Bruce Hollingsworth,Jean-François Maystadt et al.
Hoda El-Enbaby et al.
The relationship between poverty and mental health is complex. Conditional cash transfers are seen as an important policy tool in reducing poverty and fostering social protection. Evidence on the impact of cash transfers on mental health is...
Dorothée Charlier,Bérangère Legendre
Dorothée Charlier
Fuel poverty is a widespread problem which affects people's health and has serious economic and social repercussions. Mental health has been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and appears to be particularly influenced by fuel pover...
How did the European Marriage Pattern persist? Social versus familial inheritance: England and Quebec, 1650-1850 [0.03%]
欧洲婚姻模式是如何持久存在的?社会传承与家庭传承:英格兰和魁北克,1650-1850年
Gregory Clark,Neil Cummins,Matthew Curtis
Gregory Clark
The European Marriage Pattern (EMP), in place in NW Europe for perhaps 500 years, substantially limited fertility. But how could such limitation persist when some individuals who deviated from the EMP norm had more children? If their childr...
Temperature exposure and sleep duration: Evidence from time use surveys [0.03%]
温度暴露与睡眠时长:来自时间使用调查的证据
Tamás Hajdu
Tamás Hajdu
The Earth's climate is projected to warm significantly in the 21st century, and this will affect human societies in many ways. Since sleep is a basic human need and part of everyone's life, the question of how temperature affects human slee...
Family poverty and adolescents' cognitive and noncognitive outcomes: Evidence from China [0.03%]
家庭贫困与青少年的认知和非认知结果:来自中国的证据
Jiwei Chen,Zongli Zhang
Jiwei Chen
Using data from the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS) during the 2013-2014 academic year, this paper examines the effects of family poverty on adolescents' cognitive and noncognitive outcomes. We find that family poverty is detrimental to...
Vestiges of famine: Long-term mortality impacts of early-life exposure to the 1840s famine in Estonia [0.03%]
饥荒的遗痕——19世纪40年代爱沙尼亚饥荒对早产儿长期影响的证据
Kersti Lust,Hannaliis Jaadla
Kersti Lust
The paper investigates whether exposure to a famine in the Russian Tsarist Province of Livland in 1844-1846 in early life negatively affected survival at later ages, using individual data from two rural parishes. We follow 18 birth cohorts ...
The effects of social capital deprivation for wellbeing: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情下的社会资本流失与福利损失证据
Giulia Slater
Giulia Slater
The paper explores the relationship between the Covid-19 pandemic, subjective wellbeing and social capital in the UK. I exploit the pandemic as a quasi-natural experiment of an exogenously induced reduction of social capital as an explanati...
High times and troubled relationships: Recreational marijuana laws and intimate partner violence [0.03%]
美好时光与坎坷关系:娱乐大麻法案与亲密伴侣暴力行为
Michele Baggio,Alberto Chong,Revathy Suryanarayana
Michele Baggio
This study explores the relationship between Recreational Marijuana Laws (RMLs) and intimate partner violence (IPV). While marijuana is often considered harmless, the existing medical literature reveals both positive and negative impacts of...
The impact of excess body weight on employment outcomes: A systematic review of the evidence [0.03%]
体重超重对就业结果的影响:证据的系统回顾
Viktorija Kesaite,Jane Greve
Viktorija Kesaite
Background: Excess body weight has been recognised as an important factor in influencing labour market outcomes. Several hypotheses explain the causal effect of excess body weight on employment outcomes, including product...
The changing relationship between bodyweight and longevity in high- and low-income countries [0.03%]
高收入和低收入国家体重与寿命关系的变化
Joanna Kopinska,Vincenzo Atella,Jay Bhattacharya et al.
Joanna Kopinska et al.
Standard measures of bodyweight (overweight and obese, for example) fail to reflect differences across populations and technological progress over time. This paper builds on the pioneering work of Hans Waaler (1984) and Robert Fogel (1994) ...