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life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However …This publication concentrates on the complex interplay between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction. Main areas of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327286
income seems also of minor importance, even though the estimated coefficients have the expected signs implied by substitution … and income effects. The overall results suggest that unfair wage perceptions, which are related to stress, negatively … affect workers' sleep and, consequently, their health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335340
analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985359
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286974
life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However …This publication concentrates on the complex interplay between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction. Main areas of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010717496
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784010
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the role of childbearing history in later life health … better self-rated health in Western German mothers and fathers aged 50+, but its relationship with Eastern German women …'s physical health and survival is negative. Early motherhood is paralleled by poorer physical health in West Germany, whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600947
This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600954
This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent … compromise these results. We also discuss assortative mating and household income as possible channels of causality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601017
child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601023