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Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality : Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Model
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. - 2005
The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274096
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Comparing subjective and objective measures of health: evidence from hypertension for the income/health gradient
Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Shields, Michael A. - 2007
Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … no evidence of an income/health gradient using self-reported hypertension, but a large (about 14 times the size) gradient … in low income households. Given the wide use of such self-reported chronic health conditions in applied research, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268514
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Middlemen, non-profits, and poverty
Chau, Nancy H.; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - 2009
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a fair-trade premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269504
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Inequality, poverty and development : with an application to Fiji
Kanbur, Ravi - 1986
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013359484
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How serious is the neglect of intra-household inequality?
Haddad, Lawrence James - 1989
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013359641
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Quantifying the cost of passive smoking on child health: evidence from children's cotinine samples
Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 2006
income and child health. …Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children … exposure on child health. Such information is valuable to policy-makers when deciding upon the amount of resources to direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268071
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Is there an income gradient in child health? It depends whom you ask
Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen E.; … - 2010
determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the … evaluations mean that the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient is highly dependent upon the choice …A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269821
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Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures of Health: Evidence from Hypertension for the Income/Health Gradient
Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … no evidence of an income/health gradient using self-reported hypertension, but a large (about 14 times the size) gradient … in low income households. Given the wide use of such self-reported chronic health conditions in applied research, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761753
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Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality: Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Model
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763630
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Is There an Income Gradient in Child Health? It Depends Whom You Ask
Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the … evaluations mean that the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient is highly dependent upon the choice …A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529126