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McGillivray, Mark; Fielding, David; Torres, Sebastian; … - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2011

concern of the paper is the impact of aid on the wealth, education and health of the poorest. Results indicate that while aid …

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Does Working Longer Make People Healthier and Happier?

Calvo, Esteban - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of …

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Aircraft Noise in Berlin Affects Quality of Life Even Outside the Airport Grounds

Eibich, Peter; Kholodilin, Konstantin; Krekel, Christian; … - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 9, pp. 127-133

1984, allows us to examine the effect of different levels of aircraft noise on the subjective wellbeing and health of the …’s living environment, and poorer health. The association between well-being and a crossing altitude reduced by 100 meters is …

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Fluglärm ist mit einer verringerten Lebensqualität auch abseits der Berliner Flughäfen verbunden

Eibich, Peter; Kholodilin, Konstantin; Krekel, Christian; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 9, pp. 175-181

1984, allows us to examine the effect of different levels of aircraft noise on the subjective well-being and health of the …’s living environment, and poorer health. The association between well-being and a crossing altitude reduced by 100 meters is …

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The effect of compulsory schooling on health - evidence from biomarkers

Jürges, Hendrik - Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the … - 2009

exogenous variation in schooling by using biomarkers as measures of health outcomes in addition to self-reported measures. We …Using data from the Health Survey for England and the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, we estimate the causal … effect of schooling on health. Identification comes from two nation wide increases in British compulsory school leaving age …

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Fuel poverty and the energy benefits system: The Italian case

Miniaci, Raffaele; Scarpa, Carlo; Valbonesi, Paola - Istituto di Economia e Politica dell'Energia e … - 2014

In this paper we discuss a number of ways to define and measure the affordability of energy consumption, and we examine the emergence of fuel poverty in Italy in the period from 1998 to 2011. The paper examines the eligibility criteria for claiming the benefits available to support energy...

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Fuel poverty as a major determinant of perceived health: the case of France

Chaton, Corinne; Lacroix, Elie - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2015

homes and therefore more and more people are exposed to low temperatures which can affect their health. In this paper, we … poverty (coldness) and self-reported health. We also analyze the impact of other individual and environmental special features … on self-reported health. The estimation of a dichotomous Probit model allows us to infer a negative impact of fuel …

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Using Efficiency Analysis to Measure Individual Well-Being with an Illustration for Catalonia

Ramos, Xavi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...

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Economic well-being in Italy: The role of income insecurity and intergenerational inequality

Berloffa, Gabriella; Modena, Francesca - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 3, pp. 751-765

This paper argues that the evaluation of a society's economic well-being should account for the employment risk associated with being a temporary worker and for the relative income loss of young generations with respect to older ones. We show that the inclusion of new measures of both these...

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Measuring well-being and exclusion in Europe's regions

Stewart, Kitty - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

dimensions of well-being: material well-being, health, education and participation in two spheres ¿ productive and social. It …

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