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From the tallest to (one of) the fattest : the enigmatic fate of the American population in the 20th century

Komlos, John; Baur, Marieluise - 2003

considering that this adverse development is related to the greater social inequality, an inferior health-care system, and fewer …- and Northern European welfare states, with cradle to grave health and unemployment insurance currently provide a more …

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Spatial Correlates of U.S. Heights and BMIs, 2002

Komlos, John; Lauderdale, Benjamin E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Aiming to further explore possible underlying causes for the recent stagnation in American heights, this paper describes the result of analysis of the commercial U.S. Sizing Survey. Using zip codes available in the data set, we consider geographic correlates of height such as local poverty rate,...

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From the Tallest to (One of) the Fattest: The Enigmatic Fate of the American Population in the 20th Century

Komlos, John; Baur, Marieluise - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

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Gender differences in life satisfaction and social participation

Humpert, Stephan - 2013

memberships of political, welfare, health or more leisure time orientated groups. These activities have different impacts on male …

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Gender Differences in Life Satisfaction and Social Participation

Humpert, Stephan - 2014

The paper deals with the effects of social participation activities on life satisfaction. Using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) for 2010, marginal effects of binary probit estimations on life satisfaction are presented. Strong gender differences are observable. While sport, welfare or...

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Subjective Well-Being in the Southen Cone : Health, Income and Family

Cid, Alejandro; Ferres, Daniel; Rossi, Maximo - 2019

, family composition, health and religion over subjective well-being in the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay … American countries. Main obtained results show a positive correlation between higher levels of income and health, being married …

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The effects of adverse childhood experiences on adults' subjective wellbeing

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023

, experiencing long-term health problems, being bullied at school and being beaten or punched as a child all have long-term impacts … aspects of everyday life, happiness and life satisfaction, self-assessed health, and are positively linked to measures of …

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Where Should We Live?

Clark, Andrew E. - In: Review of Economic Analysis 2 (2010) 1, pp. 20-31

paper, we summarize some recent findings with respect to geographical comparisons of income, unemployment, health and …

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The socio political demography of happiness

Peltzman, Sam - 2023

Since 1972 the General Social Survey (GSS) has asked a representative sample of US adults "[are] you very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy?" Overall, the population is reasonably happy even after a mild recent decline. I focus on differences along standard socio demographic dimensions: age,...

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The socio political demography of happiness

Peltzman, Sam - 2023

Since 1972 the General Social Survey (GSS) has asked a representative sample of US adults "… [are] you…very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy?" Overall, the population is reasonably happy even after a mild recent decline. I focus on differences along standard socio demographic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321906