Lebensumstände in Österreichs Städten. Dabei umfasst sie folgende Bereiche: a) Ausbildung und Erziehung, b) Gesundheit, c) Wohnen, d …. Sie bieten hochwertige Jobs und wichtige Leistungen der Daseinsvorsorge in den Bereichen Bildung, Gesundheit, Wohnen und …-Vergleich einen sehr hohen Lebensstandard und ein hohes Niveau an Lebensqualität. Ihre Kosten für Wasser, Energie und insbesondere …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

?more is better,? based on revealed preference theory, is wrong. An increase in income, and thus in the goods at one … better theory of well-being builds on the evidence that adaptation and social comparison affect utility more in pecuniary … goals, such as family life and health, and reduces well-being. There is need to devise policies that will yield better …

This paper looks at the links between health and socio-economic status. It is generally assumed by non-economists that … it is low SES that causes ill health, but this paper asks whether the causation might also work the other way. Even if … the direction of causation is that SES mainly affects health, what dimensions of SES actually matter — the financial …

A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the … allows investigation of whether the socioeconomically disadvantaged, on top of a lower health level, experience a sharper … deterioration of their health over the life cycle. We show that in the Netherlands, as in the US, the socioeconomic gradient in …

This paper examines an accumulating modern literature on the health benefits of relationships like marriage. Although … and disciplines, that there is persuasive longitudinal evidence for such effects. The size of the health gain from …

We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of … previous literature on health and socio-economic status, we find that, on average, adverse income shocks lead to a … deterioration of health. These effects are most pronounced for working-aged men and are dominated by transitions into the very …