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HIV/AIDS Contamination Risk, Savings and the Welfare Effects of Diagnostic Testing
Lammers, Judith; Meijdam, A. C.; Verbon, Harrie A. A. - 2007
This paper models the effect of a HIV/AIDS epidemic on saving behavior and studies the welfare effects of testing for HIV. The model specifies a utility function that includes both regular consumption, and medical expenditures. Medical expenditures generate more utility if individuals are HIV...
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Beyond Covid : pandemics and the economics of aging and longevity
Strulik, Holger; Grossmann, Volker - 2024
In this paper, we examine the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on individual aging and longevity with special focus on … calibrate a health economic model based on principles of the biology of human aging that captures the interaction between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529184
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Energy poverty and obesity
Prakash, Kushneel; Munyanyi, Musharavati Ephraim - 2021
Obesity is a major health concern in both developed and developing nations. Yet, evidence on the determinants of … obesity is relatively limited. We contribute to the literature on the determinants of obesity by empirically examining the … effects of energy poverty on obesity.Using 14 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey …
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Why is the World Getting Older? The Influence of Happiness on Mortality
Guven, Cahit - 2009
World life expectancy has risen by around 20 years in the last 50 years. This period has also witnessed rising happiness levels around the world suggesting that happiness might be one of the causes behind the decline in mortality. We investigate the relationship between happiness and mortality...
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Absolute wealth and world region strongly predict overweight among women (ages 18 - 49) in 360 populations across 36 developing countries
Hruschka, Daniel J.; Brewis, Alexandra A. - In: Economics and human biology 11 (2013) 3, pp. 337-344
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Global food value chains and obesity in low- and middle-income countries
Hashad, Reem; Lim, Sunghun; Abay, Kibrom A. - In: Food policy 127 (2024), pp. 1-14
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The Downward Spiral
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kopecky, Karen A. - 2022
To analyze the opioid epidemic, we construct a model where individuals, with and without pain, choose whether to misuse opioids knowing the probabilities of addiction and dying. These odds are functions of opioid use. Markov chains are estimated from the US data for the college and non–college...
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The Durapolist Puzzle : Monopoly Power in Durable-Goods Market
Orbach, Barak - 2008
This Article studies the durapolist, the durable-goods monopolist. Durapolists have long argued that, unlike perishable-goods monopolists, they face difficulties in exercising market power despite their monopolistic position. During the past thirty years, economists have extensively studied the...
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Chapter 17. The HRS Around the World Surveys
Dobrescu, L.I.; Smith, J.P. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 993-1018). 2016
development is intertwined with the major aging trends around the world. This discussion includes the origins of the HRS model … HRS-style data to advance our understanding of population aging and successfully inform the policy and business practices …
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The midlife crisis
Giuntella, Osea; McManus, Sally; Mujcic, Redzo; Oswald, … - 2022
This paper documents a longitudinal crisis of midlife among the inhabitants of rich nations. Yet middle-aged citizens in our data sets are close to their peak earnings, have typically experienced little or no illness, reside in some of the safest countries in the world, and live in the most...
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