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Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … individual panel data allow exploiting important methodological advantages. Novelties of our test of the Easterlin hypothesis are … a) long-term panel data and estimation with individual fixed effects, b) regional GDP per capita with a higher variation …
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Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … individual panel data allow exploiting important methodological advantages. Novelties of our test of the Easterlin hypothesis are … a) long-term panel data and estimation with individual fixed effects, b) regional GDP per capita with a higher variation …
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reported monthly income by £142 (8 percent). Dependent interviewing - a recall device commonly used in panel surveys - takes … of a panel. Our estimates indicate that the effect of being interviewed for a second time is to increase the mean of … attributed to changes in respondent reporting behaviour (panel conditioning). Our analysis suggests that falls in respondent …
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Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over … panel LS regressions with individual fixed effects, none of the income variables was significant for the highly educated. … from lowest to highest LS, though their average income was always higher. In spite of rapid income growth up to 2008 …
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