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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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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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What Matters for Life Satisfaction among the Oldest-Old? Evidence from China
Ng, Sor Tho; Tey, Nai Peng; Asadullah, Niaz - 2017
This study investigates the determinants of life satisfaction among the oldest-old (i.e. individuals aged 80 or over) in China. We use the 2011/2012 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey data (n = 6530) for this paper. Logistic regression is used to analyse the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653352
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Does job satisfaction improve the health of workers? New evidence using panel data and objective measures of health
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2007
This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Methodologically, it addresses two important design problems encountered frequently in the literature: (a) cross-sectional causality problems and (b)...
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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 - 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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The Mental Health Effects of Retirement
Picchio, Matteo; van Ours, Jan C. - 2019
We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects are heterogeneous by gender and marital status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects...
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