2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is used for the exploration of the full spectrum … of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol … evidence of the significant effects of the three behavioral risk factors on the individual's SAHS, beyond and above effects of …

conditions may yield over 10 percentage points higher participation rates for men in countries like Austria, Germany and Spain … data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The empirical analysis shows that …

suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation are actually found in a considerable variety of economic and social …

presence of relative income terms in the utility function. Income may be evaluated relative to others (social comparison) or to …

This paper develops the mathematical foundations of comparison, referential, and relative (CRR) processes. The key …

describing five sociobehavioral processes - comparison (including justice and self-esteem), status, power, identity, and … - comparison, status, and power - each associated with a distinctive mechanism, in particular, a distinctive rate of change of the …