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Is there a "dead-anyway" effect in willingness to pay for risk reduction?
Breyer, Friedrich; Grabka, Markus M. - 2001
In a recent paper, Pratt and Zeckhauser (JPE, 1996) discuss the measure of individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for the reduction of risks to their lives which should be used for public decisions on risk-reducing projects. They suggest to correct observed WTP for the "dead-anyway" effect, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434254
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Is There a Dead-Anyway Effect in Willingness to Pay for Risk Reduction?
Grabka, Markus; Breyer, Friedrich - 2014
In a recent paper, Pratt and Zeckhauser (JPE, 1996) discuss the measure of individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for the reduction of risks to their lives which should be used for public decisions on risk-reducing projects. They suggest to correct observed WTP for the "dead-anyway" effect, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014122387
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Is there a "dead-anyway" effect in willingness to pay for risk reduction
Breyer, Friedrich; Grabka, Markus M. - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013436140
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Associations of childhood health and financial situation with quality of life after retirement : regional variation across Europe
Börnhorst, Claudia; Heger, Dörte; Mensen, Anne - 2019
Many studies have shown that childhood circumstances can have long term consequences that persist until old age. To better understand the transmission of early life circumstances, this paper analyses the effects of health and financial situation during childhood on quality of life after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998811
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Life satisfaction and longevity : longitudinal evidence from the German socio-economic panel
Guven, Cahit; Saloumidis, Rudy - In: German economic review 15 (2014) 4, pp. 453-472
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498684
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Terminal decline in well-being : the role of social orientation
Gerstorf, Denis; Hoppmann, Christiane A.; Löckenhoff, … - 2016
associated with late-life trajectories of well-being. Associations were independent of key correlates of well-being and mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450998
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Levels of and changes in life satisfaction predict mortality hazards : disentangling the role of physical health, perceived control, and social orientation
Hülür, Gizem; Heckhausen, Jutta; Hoppmann, Christiane A. - 2017
examining whether and how levels of and changes in life satisfaction prospectively predict mortality hazards and delineate the … showed that lower levels and steeper declines of life satisfaction each uniquely predicted higher mortality risks. Results … effects for mortality hazards among older adults. Perceived control is associated with lower mortality hazards; however, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011701181
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Late-life decline in well-being across adulthood in Germany, the UK, and the US : something is seriously wrong at the end of life
Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Mayraz, Guy; Hidajat, Mira; … - 2010
findings suggest that mortality-related mechanisms drive late-life changes in well-being and highlight the need for further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825081
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Effects of different life events on life satisfaction in the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey
Bauer, Jan M.; Cords, Dario; Sellung, Rachelle; … - In: Economics letters 129 (2015), pp. 91-94
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(Mis-)predicted subjective well-being following life events
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
The correct prediction of how alternative states of the world affect our lives is a cornerstone of economics. We study how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being when facing major life events. Based on individual panel data, we compare people's forecast of their life...
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