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fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong … deprivation indicators as well as in the case of self-reported generic measures of physical health. Lifestyle and chronic health …
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484689
on health outcomes, including self-reports of chest infection, measured hypertension and biomarkers of infection and … serum fibrinogen. Reductions in other disease markers point to health benefits, but the estimated effects are not robustly …
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fuel spending among eligible households. We examine the causal effect of the WFP on health outcomes, including self …-reports of chest infection, measured hypertension and biomarkers of infection and inflammation. We find a robust and … disease markers point to health benefits, but the estimated effects are not robustly statistically significant. …
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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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This paper analyses the relationship between health and socioeconomic status accounting for the role of breadth and … absolute and relative deprivation and use these measures along with a range of nurse measured and blood-based biomarkers for a … distributional analysis of the relationship between socioeconomic status and health. Using data from the British Household Panel …
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the evolution of well-being changes due to, on one side, the changes in the weighting scheme and, on the other, changes in the indicators along the time. An alternative methodology is proposed in this paper that allows one to decompose a multidimensional index...
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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 measures of income have ignored large areas of human well-being and are poor measures of well-being in the areas to which they attend. Despite increased recognition of those distortions, ‘GNP per capita continues to be regarded as the quintessential indicator of a country’s living...
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