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Smoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow : income and risky choices amongst young adults in the UK
Coppola, Gianluigi; O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Pinto, Claudio - 2015
In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … that there are substantial differences between the permanent and transitory income determinants - also in terms of the … direction of the effects. Moreover, we find that income effects often differ significantly in size and sometimes sign according …
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Erwartungen und Sparen: wie wirken Arbeitslosigkeits- und Gesundheitserwartungen auf die Sparentscheidung von Haushalten?
Arent, Stefan - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 19 (2012) 02, pp. 13-18
Individuen möchten ihre Einkommensverhältnisse und damit ihren Konsum nach Möglichkeit über einen langen Zeitraum konstant halten. Dieses Ziel lässt sich am einfachsten durch Sparen erreichen. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, ob bzw. wie Erwartungen über zukünftige Entwicklungen die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011148751
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Broke, Ill, and Obese: The Effect of Household Debt on Health
Keese, Matthias; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2010
household indebtedness, such as the percentage shares of household income spent on consumer credit and home loan repayments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600992
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Approaches to estimating the health state dependence of the utility function
Finkelstein, Amy; Luttmer, Erzo F.P.; Notowidigdo, … - 2009
If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In this paper, we describe the promises and challenges of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269281
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Expectations and Saving Behavior: An Empirical Analysis
Arent, Stefan - 2012
In this paper we analyze the impact of the expectations about future labor income on thesaving behavior of German … decreases savings. However, we are not able to identify asignificant relationship between general future income expectations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312155
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Erwartungen und Sparen: wie wirken Arbeitslosigkeits- und Gesundheitserwartungen auf die Sparentscheidung von Haushalten?
Arent, Stefan - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 19 (2012) 2, pp. 13-18
Individuen möchten ihre Einkommensverhältnisse und damit ihren Konsum nach Möglichkeit über einen langen Zeitraum konstant halten. Dieses Ziel lässt sich am einfachsten durch Sparen erreichen. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, ob bzw. wie Erwartungen über zukünftige Entwicklungen die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011733301
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Organic Food and Human Health: Instrumental Variables Evidence
Welsch, Heinz - 2012
Organic food markets in developed countries have been rapidly expanding in recent years. Though expected health benefits are a major motive for buying organic food (OF), the health effects of consuming OF are uncertain. This study uses survey data from Germany, 2007, to explore the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435679
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Non-employment, Ill-being and Subjective Well-being
Kapitány, Zsuzsa - 2009
(as a proxy of SWB) have identified strong relations with income, labour market status and health state. In this … literature review we try to be acquainted with and analyse the dynamic effect of income, health state (ill-being) and labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494415
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Unreported Income, Education and Subjective Well-Being
Molnár, György; Kapitány, Zsuzsa - 2010
. People believe that the actual income of the poor and of people with disadvantageous labour market status is considerably … undeclared income than the others. In this study we make an attempt to identify relative unreported income of different social … satisfaction and actual income. We cannot exactly prove that the unreported income of the poor is relatively not higher than the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494445
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The impacts of piped water on water quality, sanitation, hygiene and health in rural households of north-western Bangladesh : a quasi-experimental analysis
Hasan, Mohammad Monirul; Gerber, Nikolaus - 2016
We investigated the impacts of piped water on water quality, sanitation, hygiene and health outcomes in marginalized rural households of north-western Bangladesh using a quasi-experimental analysis. A government organization - the Barindra Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) - established...
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