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Getting Warmer: Fuel Poverty, Objective and Subjective Health and Well-Being
Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021
fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … energy policy instruments for uncovering the underlining mechanism via which fuel poverty may get "under the skin". …
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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 life," such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can be calculated with manageable data requirements....
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Intergenerational mobility of economic well-being in Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022 - This version: 31 August 2022
We estimate, for the first time, long-run trends in intergenerational economic mobility for a multitude of countries in Latin America going beyond parent-child correlations in educational attainment. We use several indicators of well-being, such as the socio-economic situation of individuals,...
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Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries
Alvaredo, Facundo; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2013
This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … poverty across countries and regions, an assessment of trends in these variables since the early 1980s, and a general … discussion of their determinants. There has been tremendous progress in the measurement of inequality and poverty in the …
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Time poverty and gender in urban sub-Saharan Africa : long working days and long commutes in Ghana's Greater Accra Metropolitan Area
Carmichael, Fiona; Darko, Christian K.; Daley, Patricia; … - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 36 (2024) 1, pp. 343-364
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Interrelated dynamics of health and poverty in Australia
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Cai, Lixin - 2009
health and poverty in Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a … better estimation of the causal relationship between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality between … health and poverty runs both ways and the relationship is confounded by unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, it is found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269658
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Health Inequalities among People Experiencing Food Insecurity. An Intersectional Approach
Drydakis, Nick - 2023
, living below the poverty threshold, long-term food dependency, illicit drug consumption, and residing in low- and middle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469764
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Interrelated Dynamics of Health and Poverty in Australia
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Cai, Lixin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
health and poverty in Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a … better estimation of the causal relationship between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality between … health and poverty runs both ways and the relationship is confounded by unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, it is found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514852
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Deprivation and the dimnensionality of welfare : a variable-selection cluster-analysis approach
Caruso, Germán; Sosa Escudero, Walter; Svarc, Marcela - 2011
the "poor/non-poor" classification in the first stage. -- Multidimensional welfare ; poverty ; factory analysis ; clusters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008772508
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Putting Different Price Tags on the Same Health Condition: Re-evaluating the Well-Being Valuation Approach
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; van den Berg, Bernard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new well-being valuation method. Yet there is currently no clear consensus on what the best measure of individual’s experience may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on...
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