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The Dynamics of Income-Related Health Inequality Among US Children
Chatterji, Pinka - 2011
We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120563
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Parental Leave, (In)Formal Childcare and Long-Term Child Outcomes
Danzer, Natalia - 2017
's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953697
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The Global Joint Distribution of Income and Health
Wu, Ximing; Savvides, Andreas; Stengos, Thanasis - CESifo - 2008
unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196304
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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency : The Case of Job Satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2011
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117782
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How Job Changes Affect People's Lives - Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data
Chadi, Adrian - 2016
For representative German panel data, we show that voluntary job switching leads to relatively high levels of life satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion interacts negatively with this effect in life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988230
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Happiness of Economists
Feld, Lars P. - 2014
We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively related to spending more time on doing research. The lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040007
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How Much Does Others' Protection Matter? Employment Protection, Future Labour Market Prospects and Well-Being
Lücke, Christine - 2018
Employment protection legislation (EPL) is an important determinant of workers' perceived future labour market prospects as well as their subjective well-being. Recent studies indicate that it is not only a worker's own level of protection, but also the employment protection of other workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920115
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Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
This paper provides a model of “social hysteresis,” whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315765
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The Tradeoff between Redistribution and Effort : Evidence from the Field and from the Lab
Buch, Claudia M.; Engel, Christoph - 2021
redistribution choices even increase in imposed effort. Those with higher ability are willing to help the needy if earning income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315914
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The Tradeoff Between Redistribution and Effort: Evidence from the Field and from the Lab
Buch, Claudia M.; Engel, Christoph - CESifo - 2012
redistribution choices even increase in imposed effort. Those with higher ability are willing to help the needy if earning income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547897