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of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1 … data") in order to disentangle the interplay between individual, societal and regional determinants on individuals' health …
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of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1 …' health status and other outcome variables. Furthermore, as the BASE-II study is based on a convenience sample, the SOEP Group …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314122
Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. In this chapter, we argue that focusing on a phase of life during which this positive picture does not necessarily prevail promises to help us better understand between-person disparities in the...
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income, health, worries, marital status and employment status. With this technique we can simultaneously analyze the impact … changes in the named life domains are followed by decreases in subjective well-being (except for health, which is followed by …
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-being, in particular with life satisfaction, as well as mental and physical health. The effects are strongest for residents who …
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with twelve concrete health impairments. Specifically, we analyze whether subjective well-being predicts longer survival in … decrease survival in our sample, even controlling for the severity of health problems. But our results cast doubt on strong … significant interactions between substantive health impairments and life satisfaction. Higher subjective well-being may keep you …
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Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia … survey (waves 2001-2014), we construct measures of unexpected health shocks for each year, using information on respondents …
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(health, social life, income, education) over the quantiles of the subjective well-being distribution, with attenuated effect …
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Health assessments correlate with health outcomes and subjective well-being. Immigrants offer an opportunity to study … persistent social influences on health where the social conditions are not endogenous to individual outcomes. This approach … provides a clear direction of causality from social conditions to health, and in a second stage to well-being. Natives and …
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In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover …, privately insured individuals are treated preferentially by doctors. In this article, I use subjective health data to examine … whether these superior features of private insurance actually transfer into better health. I focus on German adolescents who …
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