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We analyze the interplay between longevity, pollution and growth. We develop an OLG model where longevity, pollution … and growth are endogenous. The authorities may provide two types of public services, public health and environmental … poverty trap. We examine changes in public policies: increasing public intervention on health or environmental maintenance …
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We build a model that takes into consideration the evolution of health over the life cycle and its consequences on … ignored by previous contributions. Indeed, as the environmental tax improves the health profile over the life-cycle, it …
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We build a model that takes into consideration the evolution of health over the life cycle and its consequences on … ignored by previous contributions. Indeed, as the environmental tax improves the health profile over the life-cycle, it … influences saving, labor supply, retirement and investment in health. We also show that whether those general equilibrium effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821142
It is fairly banal to say that subjective health, the most widely-used health variable, is measured with error. In … particular, it would seem important to know how subjective health information depends on the way in which it is collected, as … questionnaire to evaluate two framing effects: the place of the health question in the questionnaire, and the verbal labels …
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During the 2003-2006 period, subjective health status in Chinese rural areas improved. We used a unique household … better about their health status when covered by the NCMS. However, there is no intensive margin: an individual's self …-assessed health status does not improve with the number of years enrolled in the program. Second, we find a positive general …
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This paper tests for income-related reporting heterogeneity in self-assessed health (SAH). It also constructs a … synthetic measure of clinical health to decompose the effect of income on SAH into an effect on clinical health (which is called … a health production effect) and a reporting heterogeneity effect. We find health production effects essentially for low …
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and negative effects for middle household income families. We find similar negative effects on life satisfaction for both … men and women, but different effects on satisfaction with work-life balance. This suggests that fathers' life satisfaction …
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always has a greater welfare effect than out-performing it (in absolute value). Comparisons which reduce satisfaction also …
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Using individual-level data from a large number of countries, this paper examines how self-reported subjective well-being depends on own income and reference income, where reference income is defined as the income of professional peers. It uncovers a divide between "old" -low mobility- European...
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This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of similar affluence. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to disentangle the influence of objective circumstances versus...
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