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between religion and health. The topic is particularly germane for the health of women and of the elderly, who are much more … relationships between religiosity, age, and gender, as well as the effects of religiosity on a range of health measures and health … likely to be religious. In this paper, I use data from the Gallup World Poll to study the within and between country …
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-- on biomarkers and health. Nevertheless, we expect that intellectual convergence to happen slowly …
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of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at … in health satisfaction and rise in disability with age are much stronger in poor countries than in rich countries. In …' life or health satisfaction; the fraction of Kenyans who are satisfied with their personal health is the same as the …
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between national accounts measures and health, particularly in light of the COVID-19 epidemic which may reduce global … globalized world where international transfers of capital and property rights can have enormous effects on GDP, such as the 26 …
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employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First … symptoms and self-reported parenting stress, and negatively associated with self-rated overall health among mothers. Compared … whole, we find only weak evidence that maternal work hours are associated with maternal health, and no evidence that …
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A modern statistical literature argues that countries such as Denmark are particularly happy while nations like East Germany are not. Are such claims credible? The paper explores this by building on two ideas. The first is that psychological well-being and high blood-pressure are thought by...
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We estimate how the marginal utility of consumption varies with health. To do so, we develop a simple model in which … the impact of health on the marginal utility of consumption can be estimated from data on permanent income, health, and … utility proxies. We estimate the model using the Health and Retirement Study's panel data on the elderly and near-elderly, and …
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mental health, life satisfaction, and health care utilization. Because poor health can induce retirement, we instrument for … test. We find strong evidence that retirement improves both health and life satisfaction. While the impact on life … satisfaction occurs within the first 4 years of retirement, many of the improvements in health show up 4 or more years later …
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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...
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eroded, and the gender happiness gap has disappeared entirely. Paralleling changes in the income distribution, differences in …
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