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On a Tendency in Health Economics to Dwell on Income Inequality and Underestimate Social Stress
Stark, Oded - 2023
Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have … coefficient coincides with increasing social stress. If the aim of public policy is to improve public health and increase social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356662
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The modification of social space as a tool for lowering social stress
Stark, Oded - 2024
The social stress experienced by an individual from having a low relative income or from having a low income-based rank is a derivative of the individual's location in social space, and is the outcome of unfavorable comparisons with other individuals in that space. (The term social space stands...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518664
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The modification of social space as a tool for lowering social stress
Stark, Oded - 2024
The social stress experienced by an individual from having a low relative income or from having a low income-based rank is a derivative of the individual's location in social space, and is the outcome of unfavorable comparisons with other individuals in that space. (The term social space stands...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014535220
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On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress
Stark, Oded - 2023
Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have … coefficient coincides with increasing social stress. If the aim of public policy is to improve public health and increase social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249997
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On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress
Stark, Oded - 2023
Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have … coefficient coincides with increasing social stress. If the aim of public policy is to improve public health and increase social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278609
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A methodological rejoinder to “Does income relate to health due to psychosocial or material factors?”
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2020
health. In a recent study, Hounkpatin et al. (2016) conduct an inquiry aimed at deciphering which measure of low relative … income reflects better the adverse psychosocial effect of low relative income on health. Hounkpatin et al. pit against each … psychosocial effect of individual i's low relative income on his health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213174
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A methodological rejoinder to "Does income relate tohealth due to psychosocial or material factors?"
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2020
health. In a recent study, Hounkpatin et al. (2016) conduct an inquiry aimed at deciphering which measure of low relative … income reflects better the adverse psychosocial effect of low relative income on health. Hounkpatin et al. pit against each … the psychosocial effect of individual i’s low relative income on his health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213474
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On a Tendency in Health Economics to Dwell on Income Inequality and Underestimate Social Stress
Stark, Oded - 2023
Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have … coefficient coincides with increasing social stress. If the aim of public policy is to improve public health and increase social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296874
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Measuring Income Inequality in Social Networks
Stark, Oded; Bielawski, Jakub; Falniowski, Fryderyk - 2023
We present a new index for measuring income inequality in networks. The index is based on income comparisons made by the members of a network who are linked with each other by direct social connections. To model the comparisons, we compose a measure of relative deprivation for networks. We base...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469336
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A pure theory of population distribution when preferences are ordinal
Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2023
We model an environment in which individuals prefer to be in a space in which their rank is higher, be it a social space, a geographical space, a work environment, or any other comparison sphere which we refer to in this paper, and without loss of generality, as a region. When the individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014471657