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This empirical investigation into life satisfaction, using nationally representative German panel data, finds a substantial association with an individual's thoughts about the future, whether they are optimistic or pessimistic about it. Furthermore, including individuals' optimism and pessimism...
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The thoughts that an individual has about the future contribute substantially to their life satisfaction in a positive or negative direction. This is a result found via five different methods, some of which control for personality and disposition and the potential endogeneity of thoughts and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464359
The thoughts that an individual has about the future contribute substantially to their life satisfaction in a positive or negative direction. This is a result found via five different methods, some of which control for personality and disposition and the potential endogeneity of thoughts and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185790
increased heterogeneity with age. For example, work motivation does not generally decline with age but becomes increasingly task … age heterogeneity with regard to current life satisfaction and life satisfaction domains (measured as satisfaction with … work, income, family and health) that represent personal utilities individuals strive for. For our analysis we use data …
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significant heterogeneity in expenditures depending on socioeconomic variables. For the full sample, we find a price elasticity of …
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We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health …
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longitudinal data from both countries to examine whether immigrants differ in their use of health services compared to native born … health than the native-born population, the samples of immigrants in both countries use hospital and GP services at broadly …
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affect workers' sleep and, consequently, their health. …
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This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation … in order to analyze the health-related risks of consumption and old age poverty. In particular, the model includes a … health process, the interaction between health and employment risks, and an explicit modeling of the German public insurance …
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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 …
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