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We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services that are publicly and privately provided. The results...
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We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services that are publicly and privately provided. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210819
Economists have proposed a variety of sophisticated climate-change interventions. But do our citizens care enough about climate change to enact such policies? This paper provides evidence that suggests they do not. Two kinds of findings are presented. Using data on 40,000 Europeans from the 2016...
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Despite a vast literature documenting the negative effects of climate change on various socio-economic outcomes, little, if any, evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher...
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, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer …
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effects of violent crime victimisation on diverse measures of wellbeing. These results are then subsequently used to calculate … the monetary compensation required to offset the wellbeing losses. Estimates allowing for the endogeneity of income … are larger if the wellbeing losses of female family members are considered, and are larger for females if the perpetrator …
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collapses and movements in variables such as health and well-being. Using nationally-representative samples of older people … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about … recessions do not have widespread negative effects on health and well-being. …
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wellbeing. Specifically, the literature has found a strong correlation between having an internal locus of control and standard … find that these events have large negative consequences on both subjective wellbeing and objective economic outcomes. For … men, these shocks have smaller effects on subjective wellbeing when they are more internal but that the long-run effects …
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explores the effect of children's digital social networking on their subjective wellbeing. We use a large representative sample …
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analysis is a concept we call 'hedonic capital'. The paper sets out a model of the dynamics of wellbeing in which bad life … existence of a stable level of wellbeing and a tendency to return gradually towards that level. It offers a theory of hedonic …
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