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Health, Wealth and Inequality : A Contribution to the Debate About the Relationship between Inequality and Health
Carson, Scott A. - 2021
The relationship between material inequality and health is the subject of considerable debate, and may depend on how … the relationship is defined. This paper uses stature as its measure for cumulative health outcomes to illustrate that the … 19th century relationship between material inequality and health was negative; greater average state wealth was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316555
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The Effect of Compulsory Schooling on Health - Evidence from Biomarkers
Jürges, Hendrik; Kruk, Eberhard; Reinhold, Steffen - CESifo - 2010
exogenous variation in schooling by using biomarkers as measures of health outcomes in addition to self-reported measures. We …Using data from the Health Survey for England and the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, we estimate the causal … effect of schooling on health. Identification comes from two nation wide increases in British compulsory school leaving age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596598
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African-American and White Living Standards in the 19th Century American South : A Biological Comparison
Carson, Scott A. - 2006
By using a new source of 19th century Texas state prison records, the present study contrasts the biological living conditions of comparable blacks and whites in the American South between the Civil War and Reconstruction. White stature exceeded black stature. Between 1850 and 1870, black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780298
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Living Standards in Black and White : Evidence from the Heights of Ohio Prison Inmates, 1829 - 1913
Carson, Scott A.; Maloney, Thomas - 2021
The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic history literature. Moreover, a number of core findings in this literature are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317491
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Health, Wealth and Inequality: a Contribution to the Debate about the Relationship between Inequality and Health
Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2008
The relationship between material inequality and health is the subject of considerable debate, and may depend on how … the relationship is defined. This paper uses stature as its measure for cumulative health outcomes to illustrate that the … 19th century relationship between material inequality and health was negative; greater average state wealth was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766237
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Living Standards in Black and White: Evidence from the Heights of Ohio Prison Inmates, 1829 – 1913
Carson, Scott A.; Maloney, Thomas N. - CESifo - 2006
The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic history literature. Moreover, a number of core findings in this literature are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094322
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Right-Wing Extremism and the Well-Being of Immigrants
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Thomsen, Stephan L. - CESifo - 2009
This study analyzes the effects of right-wing extremism on the well-being of immigrants based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2006 merged with state-level information on election outcomes. The results show that the life satisfaction of immigrants is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533995
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132796
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The Application of the Capability Approach to High-Income OECD Countries : A Preliminary Survey
Volkert, Juergen H. W.; Schneider, Friedrich - 2021
The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316065
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - CESifo - 2010
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671708