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The downward spiral
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kopecky, Karen A. - 2022
There have been more than 500,000 opioid overdose deaths since 2000. To analyze the opioid epidemic, a model is constructed where individuals choose whether to use opioids recreationally, knowing the probabilities of addiction and dying. These odds are functions of recreational opioid usage....
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Going beyond GDP with a parsimonious indicator : inequality-adjusted healthy lifetime income
Bloom, David E.; Fan, Victoria Y.; Kufenko, Vadim; … - 2020
Per capita GDP has limited use as a well-being indicator because it does not capture many dimensions that imply a "good … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169722
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Getting warmer: fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being
Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021
) affordability and thermal comfort. Depending on which fuel deprivation indicator is used, we find heterogeneous associations between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603850
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Death and destitution: the global distribution of welfare losses from the COVID-19 pandemic
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Sterck, Olivier; Mahler, … - 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks to quantify and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life as a common metric. We estimate that almost 20 million...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518090
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Inequality and poverty in Greece : changes in times of crisis
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Karakitsios, Alexandros; … - 2017
effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of aggregate inequality and poverty using the data of EU-SILC for the … period 2007–2014. The results show that inequality rose but the magnitude of the change varies across indices. The recorded … contribution of disparities between educational groups to aggregate inequality declined while that of disparities between socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732003
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Within-country poverty convergence: evidence from Mexico
López-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; … - 2020
Trends in aggregate growth and poverty reduction hide a multiplicity of development processes at the local level. The analysis reported in this paper exploits a unique panel dataset of poverty maps covering almost 2,400 municipalities in Mexico and spanning 22 years, first, to test hypothesis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262928
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Status concern and relative deprivation in China : measures, empirical evidence, and economic and policy implications
Chen, Xi - 2015
and the alarming inequality in China have made relative deprivation more and more intense for the Chinese population. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388296
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Subjective well-being in China, 2005-2010 : the role of relative income, gender and location
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Xiao, Saizi; Yeoh, Kok Kheng - 2016
We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449772
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Recoupling economic and social prosperity
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human well-being, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178514
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Satisfaction with life, happiness, and inequality - a pseudo-panel study
Jensen, Søren; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2020
The hypothesis tested in this paper is whether the increasing inequality in recent years has had a significant impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171363