Revisiting the relationship between wages and sleep duration: The role of insomnia

Peace of Mind: Examining Election-Induced Anxiety among Minorities in India

“…Hillman et al (2006) find that sleep disorders impose a total financial cost of approximately $4524 million in Australia. Sedigh et al (2017) confirm the negative relationship between wages and sleep documented by Biddle and Hamermesh (1990) using data from Canada.…”

“…Fear of exclusion, retribution, and backlash could heighten anxiety for certain groups of people, and we causally establish that this indeed is the case in the backdrop of general election results in India in 2019. Economists have investigated how reduced sleep affects a host of outcomes (Asgeirsdottir and Olafsson, 2015;Biddle and Hamermesh, 1990;Cappuccio et al, 2010;Hillman et al, 2006;Sedigh et al, 2017). 7 Lack of adequate sleep has been shown to affect workplace productivity, absenteeism, and school performance.…”

Physical activity and sleep problems in 38 low- and middle-income countries

“…Based on previous research, we controlled for a wide range of socio-demographic variables: age [3], sex [3], wealth quintiles [34,35], employment status (unemployed or not), educational status (highest level: no formal, primary, secondary, tertiary) [36] , and living in rural versus urban areas [4]). Principal component analysis based on 15-20 assets was performed to establish country-wise wealth quintiles.Additionally, , we controlled for several physical and mental health parameters: body mass index (BMI), the presence of chronic physical conditions [37,38], anxiety [39,40], and depression [37].…”

Spousal effects on wages, labour supply and household production in Ghana

“…From this perspective, the couple's wages and hours of work could also be endogenous. Previous studies have addressed this potential endogeneity by using variables such as family non-wage income, education of the respondent, union status or membership, region of residence, and industry or sector of employment (Connelly & Kimmel 2009;Sedigh et al 2016;Song 2007). Others have used pre-tax wage, the square of the pre-tax wage, capital income and the square of capital income (Bloemen & Stancanelli 2014;Daunfeldt & Hellström 2007).…”

“…Evidence in Ghana and other countries such as Ivory Coast, India, Germany and Canada suggests that public sector workers enjoy a public sector wage premium (Baffour & Turkson 2015;Glinskaya & Lokshin 2007;Venti 1987;Younger & Osei-Assibey 2017). Moreover, both union membership and sector of employment have been used as instruments for wage in previous studies (Sedigh et al 2016;Song 2007). The union variable is binary and takes on the value 1 if there is a trade union at the place where the respondent works and 0, otherwise.…”