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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 … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong … deprivation indicators as well as in the case of self-reported generic measures of physical health. Lifestyle and chronic health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658214
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Using efficiency analysis to measure individual well-being with an illustration for Catalonia
Ramos, Xavi - 2005
This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267478
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Using Efficiency Analysis to Measure Individual Well-Being with an Illustration for Catalonia
Ramos, Xavi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703024
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Female Suicide and the Concept of the Midlife Crisis
Oswald, Andrew J.; Tohamy, Ahmed - 2017
The idea that humans especially females are prone to some form of 'midlife crisis' has typically been viewed with extreme skepticism by social scientists. We point out the potential equivalence between an age U-shape in a new well-being literature and a matching hill-shape in especially female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653487
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Imitative obesity and relative utility
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Van … - 2009
If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269287
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Lockdowns, Loneliness and Life Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2020
Using the 2012-13 American Time Use Survey, I find that both who people spend time with and how they spend it affect their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases most with additional time spent with spouse. Among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207821
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COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends
Brodeur, Abel; Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; … - 2020
sadness, while searches for stress, suicide and divorce on the contrary fell. Our results suggest that people's mental health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269882
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Trust in the Time of Corona
Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T.N.; Justino, Patricia; … - 2020
not just public health and the economy but also societies. We focus on one pillar of society—trust—and explore how trust … personal health or the health of loved ones, but rather by increased levels of worry and stress. Our findings suggest that the … effects of the pandemic go well beyond immediate health concerns, leading to important normative changes that are likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270064
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Antidepressants for Economists and Business-School Researchers: An Introduction and Review
Katolik, Aleksandra; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017
The antidepressant pill is an important modern commodity. Its growing role in the world has been largely ignored by researchers in economics departments and business schools. Scholars may be unaware how many citizens and employees now take these pills. Here we review some of the social-science...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744671
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Antidepressants and age
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2011
Antidepressants as a commodity have been remarkably little-studied by economists. This study shows in new data for 27 European countries that 8% of people (and 10% of those middle-aged) take antidepressants each year. The probability of antidepressant use is greatest among those who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285995