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Relative income, the breadwinner norm, and mental health in couples
Getik, Demid - 2022
The share of couples where the wife out-earns the husband is increasing in many countries. In this paper, I investigate how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental health is positively associated with own and spousal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013270328
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Between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being
Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Fauth, Elizabeth; Schupp, … - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635339
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Between-Person Disparities in the Progression of Late-Life Well-Being
Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Fauth, Elizabeth; Schupp, … - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207017
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Health Inequities and Social Determinants : Diabetes Prevalence Among Canadian Aboriginals
Ciechanowski, Peter - 2014
Diabetes is a chronic disease that either impairs the production of or response to insulin, a hormone vital to the process of converting food into energy. Diabetic patients usually have one or more chronic conditions, such as diabetic foot, retinopathy, and cardiovascular diseases. Although the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154596
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Global Health Inequalities : An International Comparison
Prah Ruger, Jennifer - 2011
Objective: To study cross-national inequalities in mortality of adults and of children aged 5 years using a novel approach, with clustering techniques to stratify countries into mortality groups (better-off, worse-off, mid-level) and to examine risk factors associated with inequality. Design,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054217
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Ethics and Governance of Global Health Inequalities
Prah Ruger, Jennifer - 2011
Background: A world divided by health inequalities poses ethical challenges for global health. International and national responses to health disparities must be rooted in ethical values about health and its distribution; this is because ethical claims have the power to motivate, delineate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054218
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Does income inequality lead to terrorism? : evidence from the post-9/11 era
Krieger, Tim; Meierreiks, Daniel - 2015
We study the influence of income inequality on terrorism. Using cross-national data for 79 countries for the 2002 … of terrorism. Once endogeneity is properly accounted for by means of an instrumental-variable approach, higher levels of … terrorism is consistent with relative deprivation theory which argues that conflict results from frustration over the actual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281636
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Does income inequality lead to terrorism?
Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2016
We analyze the effect of income inequality on terrorism for a sample of 114 countries between 1985 and 2012. We provide …), that higher levels of income inequality are associated with more terrorism. Consistent with relative deprivation theory, we … terrorism to voice dissent and achieve a redistribution of wealth. Furthermore, we provide evidence of an indirect effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444494
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Illicit drugs and the decline of the middle class
Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2018
Empirical evidence for the U.S. suggests that the consumption of intoxicants increases in association with the socio-economic deprivation of the middle-class. To explore the underlying mechanisms, we set up a task-based labor market model with endogenous mental health status and a health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011889823
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Subjective well-being in China, 2005-2010 : the role of relative income, gender and location
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Xiao, Saizi; Yeoh, Kok Kheng - 2016
-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … conditional on having the same income, there is no rural-urban happiness gap. Our results suggest that while further decline in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449772