Combat exposure and migraine headache: evidence from exogenous deployment assignment [0.03%]
暴露与偏头痛：来自外源性部署分配的证据
Resul Cesur,Joseph J Sabia,Erdal Tekin
Resul Cesur
Migraine headache is a growing problem for U.S. servicemembers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and has been linked to substantial negative socioeconomic consequences. However, there has been no comprehensive examination of the relationship...
Peter Kooreman,Annette Scherpenzeel
Peter Kooreman
We analyze weight and fat percentage measurements of respondents in an online general population panel in the Netherlands, collected using wireless scales, with an average frequency of 1.6 measurements per week. First, we document the exist...
Decomposing socioeconomic inequalities in childhood obesity: evidence from Ireland [0.03%]
爱尔兰儿童肥胖症的经济社会差异分解研究表明
Brendan Walsh,John Cullinan
Brendan Walsh
The objective of this paper is to quantify and decompose the socioeconomic gradient in childhood obesity in the Republic of Ireland. The analysis is performed using data from the first wave of the Growing Up in Ireland survey, a nationally ...
Simen Markussen,Knut Røed
Simen Markussen
Based on administrative register data from Norway, we examine the impact of hours of daylight on sick-leave absences among workers. Our preferred estimates imply that an additional hour of daylight increases the daily entry rate to absentee...
Physical stature decline and the health status of the elderly population in England [0.03%]
英国老年人的身高变化及健康状况
Alan Fernihough,Mark E McGovern
Alan Fernihough
Few research papers in economics have examined the extent, causes or consequences of physical stature decline in aging populations. Using repeated observations on objectively measured data from the English Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA)...
Paid maternity leave and breastfeeding practice before and after California's implementation of the nation's first paid family leave program [0.03%]
加州实施国家首个带薪家庭假计划前后带薪产假与母乳喂养行为的关系
Rui Huang,Muzhe Yang
Rui Huang
California was the first state in the United States to implement a paid family leave (PFL) program in 2004. We use data from the Infant Feeding Practices Study to examine the changes in breastfeeding practices in California relative to othe...
Cahit Guven,Wang-Sheng Lee
Cahit Guven
Previous research has found that as a marker of childhood circumstances, height is correlated with cognitive functioning at older ages. Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and about 17,000 responde...
Kitae Sohn
Kitae Sohn
Analyzing the Indonesian Family Life Survey for the year 2007, this paper estimates that a 10 cm increase in physical stature is associated with an increase in earnings of 7.5% for men and 13.0% for women, even after controlling for an exte...
Hung-Lin Tao
Hung-Lin Tao
Using a data set of Taiwanese female graduates in 2006, this study finds that height and earnings are positively correlated for full-time workers. However, it is not because tall individuals went to better colleges or received better grades...
Economic development, urbanization, technological change and overweight: what do we learn from 244 Demographic and Health Surveys? [0.03%]
基于244份人口与健康调查的数据，经济发展、城市化、技术变革与超重之间的关系分析
Yevgeniy Goryakin,Marc Suhrcke
Yevgeniy Goryakin
Obesity and overweight are spreading fast in developing countries, and have reached world record levels in some of them. Capturing the size, patterns and trends of the problem has, however, been severely hampered by the lack of comparable d...