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Housing insecurity, financial hardship and mental health
IF 2.2 3区 医学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-02-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101475
Timothy Ludlow , Jonas Fooken , Christiern Rose , Kam Ki Tang
We examine the impact of housing insecurity on mental health. We use missed rental payments due to a shortage of money as a direct measure of housing insecurity and a difference-in-differences framework that allows us to differentiate the effect of housing insecurity from the effect of experiencing financial hardship more generally. We find that housing insecurity causes a decline in mental health. Further analysis reveals two important dimensions of heterogeneity: the duration of prior financial hardship and the intensity of housing insecurity. Renters in prolonged financial hardship and those who experience high levels of housing insecurity (defined as missing a rental payment and having a high rent to income ratio), experience the largest negative impacts on their mental health.
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Auspicious years, the birth of girls, and their birth outcomes
IF 2.2 3区 医学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101482
Hyunkuk Cho
The literature suggests that parents intentionally time births, with one example being the increase in births during auspicious years according to Chinese cultural beliefs. We examine births, particularly those of girls, in 2007, a year considered auspicious in South Korea as the Year of the Golden Pig in the Chinese zodiac. In that year, the total number of births in the country surged by 10 %, reaching 496,677 compared to 453,170 in the previous year, before decreasing to 460,480 the following year. This increase suggests that having a baby, regardless of sex, was prioritized over having a boy in a country with a tradition of son preference, indicating that girls who might otherwise have been aborted were born. We found that in 2007, there was a 1 percentage point increase in the number of girls born in regions with a son-preferring culture. Additionally, girls born in 2007 weighed less compared to those born in previous years, suggesting that some may not have received adequate prenatal care.
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How do basic income for elderly affect health of self-employed?
IF 2.2 3区 医学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101474
Emma Aguila , Raquel Fonseca
This study explores how basic income (a non-contributory pension program) for the elderly affects the health of retired workers who were self-employed or salaried workers. Differences in health between these groups may arise because of the greater social protection and lower income volatility that salaried workers enjoy. The study uses a cluster-randomized controlled trial that provides supplemental incomes to adults aged 70 or older in two towns of Yucatan, Mexico. It compares the effects of supplemental income over two waves for Valladolid (where eligible individuals received a monthly income supplement) and Motul (a demographically matched control town). The results indicate that self-employed workers experience a decrease in anemia and improvements in peak expiratory flow, word recall, satisfaction with health, better health care use, and well-being. In contrast, salaried workers' health outcomes show no significant effect from the program. The program improves food availability for both self-employed and salaried workers, but its impact on food availability is stronger for self-employed workers. The program did cause a crowding out of family transfers for self-employed and salaried workers.
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Gender gaps in early childhood development in Latin America and the Caribbean
IF 2.2 3区 医学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-02-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101472
Samuel Berlinski , Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano , Alba Sóñora-Noya
We examine gender gaps in early childhood cognitive and social-behavioral skills across several Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. Our study complements previous research focused on older children by analyzing the preschool period, a critical stage for lifelong human capital formation. We find that the female advantage commonly observed in school-aged children’s achievement, as well as in high school enrollment and completion in both high-income and LAC countries, is also frequently evident in early childhood within our sample of LAC countries. On average, girls outperform boys in various developmental measures and are less likely to exhibit externalizing behaviors. Furthermore, these gender gaps generally remain stable across the distributions of developmental outcomes. Unlike findings for older children in high-income countries, our results suggest that during early childhood in LAC, boys and girls do not show differential benefits from socioeconomic status or a more favorable home environment.
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Adolescent girls’ empowerment policy, health awareness, and decision-making: Evidence from the SABLA program in India 少女赋权政策、健康意识和决策:印度 SABLA 计划的证据。
IF 2.2 3区 医学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101458
Modjgan Alishahi , Samira Hasanzadeh
In India, adolescent girls are highly vulnerable, facing risks that hinder their healthy development into young women. India’s Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (SABLA) aims to address these challenges by promoting health awareness and encouraging decision-making autonomy, fostering women’s development. Using data from the nationally representative India Demographic and Health Survey (IDHS) and exploiting exogenous variations in the program’s rollout across districts and birth cohorts, we provide evidence that exposure to SABLA increases the likelihood of young female participants using family planning and modern family planning methods. Furthermore, it indicates that participants are more likely to adopt a healthier diet, characterized by increased consumption of green leafy vegetables and reduced intake of fried foods. Additionally, the program empowers participants to have control over their financial resources. The findings also reveal a significant reduction in the likelihood of anemia among women who were exposed to the program. Notably, our results suggest that SABLA contributes to delaying women’s marriage and their first childbirth. We find that women exposed to the program have fewer children than their counterparts and face fewer pregnancy losses. To account for COVID-19 disruptions, we include a COVID dummy variable. While the pandemic affected family planning, nutrition, and anemia, SABLA’s positive impact on health and empowerment remains strong. Notably, it did not affect women’s role in household decision-making, highlighting its lasting effect on empowerment.
在印度,少女非常脆弱,面临着阻碍她们健康成长为年轻女性的风险。印度的拉吉夫·甘地少女赋权计划(SABLA)旨在通过提高保健意识和鼓励决策自主、促进妇女发展来应对这些挑战。利用具有全国代表性的印度人口与健康调查(IDHS)的数据,并利用该计划在各地区和出生队列中推出的外生变化,我们提供了证据,表明接触SABLA增加了年轻女性参与者使用计划生育和现代计划生育方法的可能性。此外,它表明参与者更有可能采取更健康的饮食,其特点是增加绿叶蔬菜的消费,减少油炸食品的摄入。此外,该计划使参与者能够控制自己的财务资源。研究结果还显示,参与该计划的妇女患贫血的可能性显著降低。值得注意的是,我们的研究结果表明,SABLA有助于推迟妇女结婚和第一次生育。我们发现,参与该计划的妇女比她们的同行生的孩子少,面临的流产也更少。为了解释COVID-19的中断,我们包含了一个COVID虚拟变量。虽然大流行病影响到计划生育、营养和贫血,但艾滋病对健康和增强权能的积极影响仍然很大。值得注意的是,它没有影响妇女在家庭决策中的作用,突出了其对赋权的持久影响。
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Social capital and vaccination compliance: Evidence from Italy 社会资本与疫苗接种依从性:来自意大利的证据。
IF 2.2 3区 医学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101462
Giulia Montresor , Lucia Schiavon
Exploiting high-frequency vaccination data for COVID-19 and social capital measures at the municipal level in Italy between January and October 2021, this paper estimates the effect of social capital on vaccination compliance. We find that weekly vaccination coverage increased up to 1.60 percentage points more in municipalities with higher social capital. Results do not differ by gender and the effect is mainly driven by younger generations. Our findings shed light on the role of social capital as a driver of health protective behavior.
本文利用2021年1月至10月期间意大利市一级的COVID-19高频疫苗接种数据和社会资本措施,估计了社会资本对疫苗接种依从性的影响。我们发现,在社会资本较高的城市,每周疫苗接种覆盖率增加了1.60个百分点。结果没有性别差异,主要是由年轻一代推动的。我们的研究结果揭示了社会资本作为健康保护行为驱动因素的作用。
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Smoking to your kids gain? Childhood exposure to parental smoking and obesity
IF 2.2 3区 医学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101473
Kushneel Prakash , Sanjesh Kumar
We empirically investigate the link between parental smoking during childhood or adolescence and the probability of adult obesity. Utilizing data from Household, Income and Labour Dynamics Survey for Australia spanning 2006–2021, our analysis reveals that individuals who were exposed to parental smoking during their childhood exhibit a 4.7 percentage point higher likelihood of being obese in later stages of life. Several robustness checks indicate that the results can be suggestive of a causal relationship. Our findings indicate that health, social capital, and personality traits act as significant pathways through which early exposure to parental smoking during childhood raises the risk of adult obesity. The implications of our findings are significant for early-life interventions aimed at addressing obesity stemming from exposure to passive smoking.
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The long-run and intergenerational impact of early exposure to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–61 on mental health 早期接触1959-61年中国大饥荒对心理健康的长期和代际影响。
IF 2.2 3区 医学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101461
Chih Ming Tan , Xiaobo Zhang , Xin Zhang
We study the effects of early exposure to the Great Chinese Famine on the mental health and subjective well-being of survivors as well as their offspring using data from the 2010 and 2014 waves of the China Family Panel Studies. Our analysis focuses on K6 scores, severe mental illness, and life dissatisfaction. We find that early exposure to the famine has impaired the mental health outcomes of women, but not men (i.e., the first generation). For the second generation, negative effects only show up among the sons of male famine survivors. Some preliminary evidence suggests that the mechanism for such transmission may have to do with the cultural son preference.
我们使用2010年和2014年中国家庭小组研究的数据,研究了早期接触中国大饥荒对幸存者及其后代的心理健康和主观幸福感的影响。我们的分析集中在K6成绩、严重的精神疾病和生活不满。我们发现,早期接触饥荒会损害妇女的心理健康结果,但对男子(即第一代)没有影响。对于第二代,负面影响只出现在男性饥荒幸存者的儿子身上。一些初步证据表明,这种传播的机制可能与文化上的重男轻女有关。
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Height self-selection of internal migrants in Italy in the second half of the twentieth century 20世纪下半叶意大利内部移民的身高自我选择。
IF 2.2 3区 医学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101465
Donatella Lanari , Andrea Crippa , Luca Pieroni
This paper examines internal migrant selection in Italy using individual height data from the 1951 and 1980 birth cohorts of military conscripts. Information on both place of birth and residence of conscripts allows us to compare migrants’ heights to the height distributions of their non-migrant peers at the national level and to their populations of origin. Results suggest that migrants from southern Italy were negatively selected at the national level, while a positive selection in height emerged if compared to conscripts who remained in their macro-area of origin. Additionally, we found that migrants from shorter and economically disadvantaged southern regions exhibited a more positive self-selection in terms of education, occupation and health status. These findings remained consistent when using body mass index as an alternative anthropometric outcome or accounting for the North-South return migration in the more recent birth cohort of conscripts.
本文使用1951年和1980年义务兵出生队列的个人身高数据来检验意大利内部移民的选择。关于应征入伍者的出生地和居住地的信息使我们能够将移徙者的身高与全国非移徙者的身高分布及其原籍人口的身高分布进行比较。结果表明,来自意大利南部的移民在国家层面上是负选择,而与留在原籍国的应征入伍者相比,身高上出现了正选择。此外,我们发现来自南方较矮和经济条件较差地区的移民在教育、职业和健康状况方面表现出更积极的自我选择。当使用身体质量指数作为另一种人体测量结果或考虑最近出生的应征入伍者的南北返回迁移时,这些发现保持一致。
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Religiosity, attitudes toward science, and public health: Evidence from Finland 宗教信仰、对科学的态度和公共健康:来自芬兰的证据。
IF 2.2 3区 医学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101460
Ioannis Laliotis , Evangelos Mourelatos , Joona Lohtander
We explore how religiosity influences perceptions and the adoption of protective health behaviours, as reflected in COVID-19 infection and vaccination rates. In the first part of our analysis, we use Finnish data from four nationally representative surveys, we find that individuals with higher self-reported religiosity and those from more conservative religious groups tend to hold less favourable attitudes towards science, technology and medicine, compared to non-religious individuals. In the second part, we observe that municipalities with higher shares of conservative religious groups experienced greater COVID-19 spread and lower vaccination rates, with these trends persisting throughout the pandemic. Our findings underscore the importance of accounting for religiosity when crafting public health policies, as it may contribute to the existence of non-compliance hotspots.
我们探讨了宗教信仰如何影响观念和采取保护性健康行为,这反映在COVID-19感染率和疫苗接种率上。在我们分析的第一部分中,我们使用了来自四个全国代表性调查的芬兰数据,我们发现,与非宗教人士相比,自我报告的宗教虔诚度较高的个人和来自更保守的宗教团体的个人倾向于对科学、技术和医学持不太有利的态度。在第二部分中,我们观察到,保守宗教团体比例较高的城市,COVID-19的传播更大,疫苗接种率更低,这些趋势在整个大流行期间持续存在。我们的研究结果强调了在制定公共卫生政策时考虑宗教信仰的重要性,因为它可能导致不遵守热点的存在。
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