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Valuing depression using the well-being valuation approach

Andrén, Daniela - 2020

The continuously dramatic increase of the number of people suffering from depression attracts an increasing demand for effective ways of preventing depression. Without the need for new interventions, there is also a continuous call for a more robust framework for economic evaluation of public...

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Subjective and physiological measures of well-being: an exploratory analysis using birth-cohort data

Andrén, Daniela; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; … - 2017

We use a rich longitudinal data set following a cohort of Swedish women from age 10 to 49 to analyse the effects of birth and early-life conditions on adulthood outcomes. These latter include both well-being and the stress hormone cortisol. Employment and marital status are important adult...

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The Effects of Social Media Use on the Well-Being of Users. The Wonderland of HaikuJAM

Andrén, Daniela - 2019

Internet usage in general and social networking platforms (SNPs) in particular have dramatically changed the way we spend our time. A relevant question is how this change in time-use affected the well-being of people in general and younger people in particular. We answer this question by...

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Traffic accident experience and subjective well-being

Andrén, Daniela; Tapper, Erik Johansson - 2022

In this paper we aim to use a posteriori approach to estimate the monetary compensation that would keep the individual's subjective well-being unchanged after experiencing traffic accidents. The coefficients of the life satisfaction equation, estimated with Swedish data collected in May 2020,...

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New ways to measure well-being? A first joint analysis of subjective and objective measures

Andrén, Daniela; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; … - 2019

Our study is, to our knowledge, the first joint analysis of subjective and objective measures of well-being. Using a rich longitudinal data from the mothers pregnancy until adulthood for a birth cohort of children who attended school in Örebro during the 1960s, we analyse in a first step how...

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Willingness to pay for private and public improvements of vulnerable road users' safety

Andersson Järnberg, Linda; Andrén, Daniela; … - 2021

A frequent finding in the empirical literature on cost-benefit analysis of traffic safety measures is that valuations of public goods are lower than valuations of private goods, contrary to theory predictions. This study elicits the willingness to pay for publicly and privately provided safety...

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The measurement of time and income poverty

Zacharias, Ajit - 2011

Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses … of the assumption and explored alternative methods to account for time deficits in the measurement of poverty. I … individual approaches. I also propose a two-dimensional, time-income poverty measure that accounts for intrahousehold disparities …

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Net government expenditures and the economic well-being of the elderly in the United States, 1989 - 2001

Kum, Hyunsub; Wolff, Edward N.; Zacharias, Ajit - 2006

We examine the economic well-being of the elderly, using the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW). Compared to the conventional measures of income, the LIMEW is a comprehensive measure that incorporates broader definitions of income from wealth, government expenditures, and...

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The Great Recession and racial inequality: Evidence from measures of economic well-being

Masterson, Thomas; Zacharias, Ajit; Rios-Avila, Fernando; … - 2017

The Great Recession had a tremendous impact on low-income Americans, in particular black and Latino Americans. The losses in terms of employment and earnings are matched only by the losses in terms of real wealth. In many ways, however, these losses are merely a continuation of trends that have...

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