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Framing the Predicted Impacts of Covid-19 Prophylactic Measures in Terms of Lives Saved Rather than Deaths is More Effective for Older People
Biroli, Pietro; Bosworth, Steven; Della Giusta, Marina; … - 2021
This paper contributes to the literature on public health communication by studying how the framing of a message relaying the forecast impact of COVID-19 prevention measures affects compliance behaviour amongst both the young and old. A representative sample of survey respondents in the UK and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315267
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Can Subjective Mortality Expectations and Stated Preferences Explain Varying Consumption and Saving Behaviors Among the Elderly?
Salm, Martin - 2010
This study investigates how subjective mortality expectations and heterogeneity in time and risk preferences affect the … information about preferences and subjective mortality expectations from the Health and Retirement Study merged with detailed … choices vary with subjective mortality rates in a way that is consistent with the life cycle model; 2) different answers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760509
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The Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care and Household Savings Behaviour
Ohinata, Asako - 2015
We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the level of household savings. Using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016254
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When Death Was Postponed : The Effect of HIV Medication on Work, Savings, and Marriage
Ejrnæs, Mette; García-Miralles, Esteban; Gørtz, Mette; … - 2023
Longer life expectancy can affect individuals' incentives to work, save, and marry, net of any changes in their underlying health. We test this hypothesis by using the sudden arrival of a new treatment in 1995 that dramatically increased life expectancy for HIV-infected individuals. We compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347701
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Micro and Macro Determinants of Health : Older Immigrants in Europe
Constant, Amelie F. - 2015
We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030713
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Poverty and Transitions in Health
Adena, Maja - 2013
Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe … analysed.In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077310
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Skewness Expectations and Portfolio Choice
Drerup, Tilman H.; Wibral, Matthias; Zimpelmann, Christian - 2022
Many models of investor behavior predict that investors prefer assets that they believe to have positively skewed return distributions. We provide a direct test of this prediction in a representative sample of the Dutch population. Using individual-level data on return expectations for a broad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013406448
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Compliance with COVID-19 Social-Distancing Measures in Italy : The Role of Expectations and Duration
Briscese, Guglielmo - 2020
We study how intentions to comply with the self-isolation restrictions enacted in Italy in response to the COVID-19 crisis respond to the length of their possible extension. Based on a survey of a representative sample of Italian residents (N=894), we find that respondents who are positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837921
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Overconfidence and Gender Differences in Wage Expectations
Briel, Stephanie - 2020
We analyze the impact of (over-)confidence on gender differences in expected starting salaries using elicited beliefs of prospective university students in Germany. According to our results, female students have lower wage expectations and are less overconfident than their male counterparts....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827346
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Policy Uncertainty and Information Flows : Evidence from Pension Reform Expectations
Ciani, Emanuele - 2019
Subjective expectations about future policy play an important role in individuals' welfare. We examine how workers' expectations about pension reform vary with proximity to reforms, information cost, and aggregate information acquisition. We construct a new pan-European dataset of reform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862484