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Explaining Well-Being Over the Life Cycle : A Look at Life Transitions During Young Adulthood
Switek, Malgorzata - 2014
affect well-being, and to what degree can they account for the life satisfaction path followed during young adulthood? To … transitions undergone during each age interval are examined. Life satisfaction at ages 22 to 40 follows a slight inverse U … overall life satisfaction. Partnership formation, the school-to-work transition, and parenting younger children are all …
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Positional Concerns Through the Life Cycle : Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data and Survey Experiments
Akay, Alpaslan - 2012
This paper uses both subjective well-being and survey experimental data to analyze how people's positional concerns regarding income and goods vary with age. The subjective well-being approach is mainly based on German panel data for the period 1984-2009 (German Socio-Economic Panel), while the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110498
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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Layard, Richard - 2013
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by … British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health … implications for educational policy. Among adult circumstances, family income accounts for only 0.5% of the variance of life-satisfaction …
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Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction : A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis
Clark, Andrew - 2007
events, tend to return to some baseline level of wellbeing? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the … satisfaction levels are broadly equally affected by labour market and life events …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777929
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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel : Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War
van Praag, B.M.S. - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138252
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Adverse Selection in the Group Life Insurance Market
Harris, Timothy F.; Yelowitz, Aaron; Talbert, Jeffery; … - 2022
The employer-sponsored life insurance (ESLI) market is particularly susceptible to adverse selection due to community-rated premiums, guaranteed issue coverage, and the existence of a well-functioning individual market as a substitute. Using administrative payroll and healthcare claims data from...
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A Continuous Labour Supply Model in Microsimulation : A Life-Cycle Modelling Approach with Heterogeneity and Uncertainty Extension
Li, Jinjing - 2011
This paper advances a structural inter-temporal model of labour supply that is able to simulate the dynamics of labour supply in a continuous setting and to circumvent two main drawbacks of most of the existing models. The first limitation is the inability to incorporate individual heterogeneity...
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The Role of Parental Income Over the Life Cycle : A Comparison of Sweden and the UK
Bjorklund, Anders - 2012
Research on intergenerational income mobility has shown stronger persistence between parental and offspring's income in the UK than in Sweden. We use similar data sets for the two countries to explore whether these cross-national differences show up already early in offspring's life in outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096153
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Post Schooling Human Capital Investments and the Life Cycle Variance of Earnings
Magnac, Thierry - 2013
We propose an original model of human capital investments after leaving school in which individuals differ in their initial human capital obtained at school, their rate of return, their costs of human capital investments and their terminal values of human capital at a fixed date in the future....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081797
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Health Investment Over the Life-Cycle
Halliday, Timothy - 2009
We study the evolution of health investment over the life-cycle by calibrating a model of endogenous health accumulation. The model is able to produce the decline in labor supply with age as well as the hump-shaped consumption profile. In both cases, health and health investment play a crucial...
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