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Broke, ill, and obese : the effect of household debt on health
Keese, Matthias; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2010
obesity. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and reversed causality we find evidence that household debt also causally … employed individuals, and (c) lagged debt variables to rule out problems of reverse causality. We apply different measures of … precarious debt situation). We find all debt measures to be strongly correlated with health satisfaction, mental health, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826897
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Broke, ill, and obese : is there an effect of household debt on health?
Keese, Matthias; Schmitz, Hendrik - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 60 (2014) 3, pp. 525-541
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457440
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Broke, Ill, and obese : the effect of household debt on health
Keese, Matthias; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2010
obesity. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and reversed causality we find evidence that household debt also causally … employed individuals, and (c) lagged debt variables to rule out problems of reverse causality. We apply different measures of … precarious debt situation). We find all debt measures to be strongly correlated with health satisfaction, mental health, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008934933
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Time Discounting and Economic Decision-Making Among the Elderly
Huffman, David - 2020
This research project evaluates the extent of heterogeneity in time discounting among elderly Americans, as well as its role in explaining older peoples' key behaviors. We first show how older Americans evaluate simple (hypothetical) intertemporal choices in which payments now are compared with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012854861
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Can Debt Affect Your Health? Cross Country Evidence on the Debt-Health Nexus
Clayton, Maya - 2014
We investigate the relationship between household debt and health outcomes for OECD countries over the period 1995 to … 2012. Using a dataset of aggregated, standardized and objective measures of household debt and health outcomes, we estimate … debt. We find that higher household debt is linked to poorer general health. The results are also significant in extreme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054823
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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases : an alternative model for monetary appraisal
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435018
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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases : an alternative model appraisal
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402365
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The effect of physical activity on adult obesity : evidence from the Canadian NPHS panel
Sarma, Sisira; Zaric, Gregory S.; Campbell, M. Karen; … - In: Economics and human biology 14 (2014), pp. 1-21
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375318
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Social networks and housing markets
Bailey, Michael; Cao, Ruiqing; Kuchler, Theresa; … - 2016
The recent house price experiences within an individual's social network affect her perceptions of the attractiveness of property investments, and through this channel have large effects on her housing market activity. Our data combine anonymized social network information from Facebook with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476018
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Consuming dividends
Bräuer, Konstantin; Hackethal, Andreas; Hanspal, Tobin - 2020 - Current version: May 2020
This paper studies why investors buy dividend-paying assets and how they time their consumption accordingly. We combine administrative bank data linking customers' consumption transactions and income to detailed portfolio data and survey responses on financial behavior. We find that private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012223798