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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10028 Xin Zhang
Xiaobo Zhang
Xi Chen
Valuing Air Quality Using Happiness Data: The Case of China
This paper estimates the monetary value of cutting PM2.5, a dominant source of air pollution in China. By matching hedonic happiness in a nationally representative survey with daily air quality data ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2017, 137, 29 - 36 )
Q51, Q53, I31
10027 Tom Chang
Joshua Graff Zivin
Tal Gross
Matthew Neidell
The Effect of Pollution on Worker Productivity: Evidence from Call-Center Workers in China
We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (1), 151-172)
J22, J24, Q51, Q53
10026 Raymond Robertson
Drusilla Brown
Rajeev Dehejia
Working Conditions and Factory Survival: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia
A large and growing literature has identified several conditions, including exporting, that contribute to plant survival. A prevailing sentiment suggests that anti-sweatshop activity against plants ...
(published in: Reivew of Development Economics, 2021, 15 (1), 228 - 254)
J8, J5, J3
10022 Giorgio Brunello
Lorenzo Rocco
Is Childcare Bad for the Mental Health of Grandparents? Evidence from SHARE
We estimate the causal effects of regular and occasional grandchild care on the depression of grandmothers and grandfathers, using data from the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and ...
(published as 'Grandparents in the blues. The effect of childcare on grandparents' depression' in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2017,190, 67-74)
J13, I12
10021 Janneke Pieters
Samantha Rawlings
Parental Unemployment and Child Health in China
This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel data for the period 1997-2004, when the country underwent economic reforms leading ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2019, 18(1), 207-237)
I12, J13, J69, O15
10020 Aysit Tansel
Deniz Karao?lan
The Causal Effect of Education on Health Behaviors: Evidence from Turkey
This study provides causal effect of education on health behaviors in Turkey which is a middle income developing country. Health Survey of the Turkish Statistical Institute for the years 2008, 2010 ...
(revised version published as 'The Effect of Education on Health Behaviors and Obesity in Turkey: Instrumental Varable Estimates from a Developing Country' in: European Journal of Development Research, 2019, 31 (5),1416-1448. )
I10, I12, I19
10019 Yonas Alem
Hannah Behrendt
Michèle Belot
Aniko Biro
Mind, Behaviour and Health: A Randomised Experiment
Behavioural attitudes towards risk and time, as well as behavioural biases such as present bias, are thought to be important drivers of unhealthy lifestyle choices. This paper makes the first attempt ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2021, 16 (11), e0258172)
C81, C91, D81, I10, I12
10018 Mehtabul Azam
Does Social Health Insurance Reduce Financial Burden? Panel Data Evidence from India
Indian government launched the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a national health insurance scheme, in 2008 that provides cashless health services to poor households in India. We evaluate the ...
(published in: World Development, 2018, 102, 1-17)
I1, I18, I38
10016 Xi Chen
Old-Age Pension and Extended Families: How is Adult Children's Internal Migration Affected?
This paper makes use of the most recent social pension reform in rural China to examine whether receipt of the pension payment equips adult children of pensioners to migrate. Employing a regression ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2016, 34(4), 646–659)
H55, I38, J14, J22
10015 Michael Jetter
Sabine Laudage
David Stadelmann
The Intimate Link between Income Levels and Life Expectancy: Global Evidence from 213 Years
Contrary to previous findings, we find a systematic and economically sizeable relationship between income levels and life expectancy in a panel dataset of 197 countries over 213 years. By itself, ...
(published in: Social Science Quarterly, 2019, 100 (4), 1387 - 1403)
I15, I31, J11, H51
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