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The Subjective Costs of Health Losses Due to Chronic Diseases: An Alternative Model for Monetary Appraisal
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001
This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068960
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Funding Self-Employment: The Role of Consumer Credit
Kneiding, Christoph; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans - in particular instalment loans and overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal overdrafts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401160
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Mortality and Survivors' Consumption
Grimm, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
In developing countries illness shocks can have a severe impact on household income. Few studies have so fare examined the effects of mortality. The major difference between illness and mortality shocks is that a death of a household member does not only induce direct costs such as medical and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963661
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Obesity and Developmental Functioning Among Children Aged 2-4 Years
Cawley, John; Spieß, C. Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that … obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the … daily living, motor skills, and social skills) as a function of various measures of weight (including BMI and obesity status …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963750
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The Anatomy of Subjective Well-Being
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, P.; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001
Subjective Well-Being has increasingly been studied by several economists. This paper fits in that literature but takes into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains. In this paper, we consider Subjective Well-Being as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963939
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Profitability of Pension Contributions: Evidence from Real-Life Employment Biographies
Schröder, Carsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Micro-econometric intra-cohort profitability analyses of pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension contributions are rare. We use representative employment histories of a birth cohort of German PAYG pension insurants retiring in year 2005 to econometrically examine the determinants of the profitability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008645019
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Financial Risk Aversion and Household Asset Diversification
Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
This paper explores the relationship between self-declared risk aversion of private investors and their willingness to hold diversified portfolios of financial assets. The analysis is based on household survey data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) that provides a reliable measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661268
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Foreign Currency Borrowing: The Case of Hungary
Pellényi, Gábor; Bilek, Péter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
We use household survey data from Hungary to analyse the determinants of foreign currency (FX) borrowing. We do not find evidence that Hungarian FX borrowers are better educated, wealthier or more risk-loving than their peers. In fact, FX borrowing is a common phenomenon driven mostly by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661282
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Financial Risk Aversion and Household Asset Diversification
Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
This paper explores the relationship between self-declared risk aversion of private investors and their willingness to hold diversified portfolios of financial assets. The analysis is based on household survey data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) that provides a reliable measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128091
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Foreign Currency Borrowing: The Case of Hungary
Pellényi, Gábor; Bilek, Péter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
We use household survey data from Hungary to analyse the determinants of foreign currency (FX) borrowing. We do not find evidence that Hungarian FX borrowers are better educated, wealthier or more risk-loving than their peers. In fact, FX borrowing is a common phenomenon driven mostly by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128104