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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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Economic development, novelty consumption, and body weight : evidence from the East German transition to capitalism
Dragone, Davide; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510027
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Economic development, novelty consumption, and body weight : evidence from the East German transition to capitalism
Dragone, Davide; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715829
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Triggers and determinants of severe household indebtedness in Germany
Keese, Matthias - 2009
-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates … are likely to cause severe household indebtedness. Unemployment also worsens the relative debt situation mainly due to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636175
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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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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 private health insurance on self-assessed health status and health satisfaction in Germany
Petilliot, René - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011722768
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The effect of private health insurance on self-assessed health status and health satisfaction in Germany
Petilliot, René - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672588