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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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The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate; Stroud, Rebekah - 2021
people’s lifestyles have exacerbated the challenges of improving population diet and reducing obesity levels. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583582
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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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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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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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Age-differentiated QALI losses
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
In this paper we evaluate the QALY loss, which may be assigned to the prevalence of specific chronic illnesses and physical handicaps. The analysis is based on an individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British Household Panel Survey data set. This question provides a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326417
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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