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How well do individuals predict their future life satisfaction? : evidence from panel data following a nationwide exogenous shock

Frijters, Paul; Greenwell, Harry; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; … - In: The Canadian journal of economics 42 (2009) 4, pp. 1326-1346

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The value of reunification in Germany : an analysis of changes in life satisfaction

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael - 2002

We quantify the value of changes in life circumstances in Germany following reunification. To this end, we develop and implement a fixed-effect estimator for ordinal life satisfaction in the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find strong negative effects on life satisfaction from being recently...

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Socio-economic status, health shocks, life satisfaction and mortality : evidence from an increasing mixed proportional hazard model

Frijters, Paul (contributor); … - 2005

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The causal effect of income on health : evidence from German reunification

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael - In: Journal of health economics 24 (2005) 5, pp. 997-1017

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Socio-economic status, health shocks, life satisfaction and mortality : evidence from an increasing mixed proportional hazard model

Frijters, Paul (contributor); … - 2005

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides new evidence on the roles of socio-economic...