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are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …
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data set. This data set combines information at ages 12, 43, 53 and mortality between 53 and 71 for a sample of some 3000 …
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studies we find that among theearly variables recorded at age 12 the only significant determinantof adult mortality is …
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and the mortalitydata. The second section discusses the variation of mortality rateswith age in the population and in the …
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overall educational mortality disparity between 1981/82 and 1991/92 among Austrian adults aged 30-74 years. Besides specific … causes of death, the study also examines educational differentials for both avoidable causes of death and mortality amenable … to medical intervention. The data source is based on a one-year mortality follow-up of the total Austrian census …
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Since World War II, mortality has declined in the developing world. This paper examines the effects of this mortality … utility through its status. The decline in mortality stimulates investment and generates an income stream which promotes …-seeking is strong, then the decline of mortality decreases population growth below its original level. …
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We conduct a real-effort task experiment where subjects' performance translates into a donation to a charity. In a within-subjects design we vary the visibility of the donation (no/private/public feedback). Confirming previous studies, we find that subjects' performance increases, that is, they...
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This study investigates experimentally whether people in retrospective are self-aware that they engage in status-seeking behavior. Subjects participated in a real-effort task where effort translated into a donation to a charity. Within-subjects we varied the visibility of their performance...
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This paper shows how a firm can use non-targeted advertising to exploit consumers' desire for social status. A monopolist sells multiple varieties of a good to consumers who each care about what others believe about his wealth. Advertising allows consumers both to buy different varieties and to...
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Commodities do not only serve the purpose of satisfying direct needs in the production and con-sumption process. Some of them can also be used to display social status and to affect the position of an individual in society. This paper addresses the question under which circum-stances...
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