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Energy Production and Health Externalities: Evidence from Oil Refinery Strikes in France
Lavaine, Emmanuelle; Neidell, Matthew J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper examines the effect of energy production on newborn health using a recent strike that affected oil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640497
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Further Results on Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption
Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data. In earlier work (Meyer and Sullivan, 2003) we emphasized that conceptual arguments generally favor using consumption data to measure the well-being of the poor, and, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005777994
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Consumption, Income, and Material Well-Being After Welfare Reform
Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
This paper investigates how material well-being has changed over time for those at the bottom of the distributions of income and consumption. We document the sharp differences between recent trends in measured income and consumption, focusing on families headed by a single mother. Since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050115
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin; Sacks, Daniel W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682644
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Heat or Eat? Cold Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families
DeLeire, Thomas; Haider, Steven J.; Currie, Janet; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, we track calorie consumption, dietary quality, vitamin deficiencies, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720407
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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828728
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Food Insecurity or Poverty? Measuring Need-Related Dietary Adequacy
Haider, Steven J.; Currie, Janet; Bhattacharya, Jayanta - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
We examine the extent to which food insecurity questions and the standard poverty measure are correlated with various dietary and physiologic outcomes. Our findings suggest that the correlations vary tremendously by age. We find that the food insecurity questions are correlated with the dietary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830770
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The Impact of Child SSI Enrollment on Household Outcomes: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation
Duggan, Mark; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
, and health insurance coverage. The longitudinal nature of the SIPP allows us to control for unobserved differences across … program enrollment has virtually no impact on health insurance coverage because most new SSI recipients have health insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061569
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The Transformation of Hunger: The Demand for Calories Past and Present
Logan, Trevon D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
According to conventional income measures, nineteenth century American and British industrial workers were two to four times as wealthy as poor people in developing countries today. Surprisingly, however, today's poor are less hungry than yesterday's wealthy industrial workers. I estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014924
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The Risk of Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditure at End of Life
Skinner, Jonathan; Marshall, Samuel; McGarry, Kathleen M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
, particularly at older ages. We revisit this question, focusing on health care spending near the end of life using data from the … Health and Retirement Study for the years 1998-2006. We address difficulties with missing values for various categories of … wealth could plausibly buy health: large expenditures on home modifications, helpers, home health care, and higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008627137