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This paper reconsiders the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income using a panel of … cointegration properties between health care spending and income. This is done in a panel data context controlling for both cross … dependence. Heterogeneity is handled through fixed effects in a panel homogeneous model and through a panel heterogeneous model …
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Using the 2012-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we investigate the impact of energy poverty (EP) on …
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We ran a randomized field experiment to ascertain whether a costless manipulation of the informational content (restricted or enhanced information) and the framing (gain or loss framing) of the invitation letter to the breast cancer screening program in Messina, Italy, affects the take-up rate....
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Using the 2006-07 American Time Use Survey and its Eating and Health Module, I show that over half of adult Americans report grazing (secondary eating/drinking) on a typical day, with grazing time almost equaling primary eating/drinking time. An economic model predicts that higher wage rates...
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sensitivity of income estimates used in valuation. We address the endogeneity issue by decomposing wellbeing losses into those … relative who had not had an accident. We use of the Fixed Effects Filtered (FEF) estimator to enable the permanent income … coefficient to be estimated free from individual fixed effects bias. This estimate is used instead of the transient income effect …
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income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel Study we ask … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how …
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Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over … panel LS regressions with individual fixed effects, none of the income variables was significant for the highly educated … from lowest to highest LS, though their average income was always higher. In spite of rapid income growth up to 2008 …
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panel income changes. How do these two approaches relate to one another? This paper shows, first, that it is possible to … have all four combinations – rising or falling inequality and divergent or convergent panel income changes, and second … of answering this question is to compare two or more comparable cross sections and gauge changing income inequality among …
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We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for … Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more …
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This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries in health outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007. We estimate a production function where life expectancy depends on health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and...
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