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Is Posner right? An empirical test of the Posner argument for transferring health spending from old women to old men

Wunder, Christoph; Schwarze, Johannes - 2010

Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that women's utility is higher if they are married. Using life satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we...

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Decentralization, Subjective Well-Being And The Perception Of Institutions

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2012

This paper analyses whether the different powers and resources at the disposal of local and regional governments across Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses microdata from the four available waves of the...

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Predicting GDP of 289 NUTS Regions in Europe with 'Subjective' Indicators for Human and Social Capital

Weckroth, Mikko; Kemppainen, Teemu; Sørensen, Jens F.L. - 2015

Most of the aggregate level analyses on the relationship between objective and subjective measures for well-being have limited themselves to measures of national GDP and mean life satisfaction. We develop this line of research by embedding the analysis into the context of 289 NUTS regions in...

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Ozone Pollution, Health and Well-Being

Rechlitz, Julia; Sarmiento, Luis; Zaklan, Aleksandar - 2019

This paper evaluates the effect of ozone pollution on individuals' subjective health satisfaction and well-being, allowing us to capture both direct and indirect effects of ozone pollution on adults. Specifically, we focus on differences between households with and without children. We combine...

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Smoking Bans, Leisure Time, and Subjective Well-being

Chadi, Cornelia - 2018

During 2007 and 2008 smoking bans were gradually implemented in all of Germany’s sixteen federal states to prohibit smoking in bars, restaurants, and dance clubs. Aimed at reducing smoking and improving health, tobacco control policies are often controversially discussed as they entail...

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Sitting in the same boat: Subjective well-being and social comparison after an extreme weather event

Krähnert, Kati; Fluhrer, Svenja - 2021

How does subjective well-being depend on the fate of others when a covariate shock strikes? In this paper, we address this question by providing novel evidence on the impact of shock-induced damages experienced by individuals and their reference group on life satisfaction. We do so by examining...

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Weather-induced Short-term Fluctuations of Economic Output

Schreiber, Sven - 2018

We contribute to the recent literature on the economic effects of those weather conditions that deviate from their … nonlinear, contemporaneous and dynamic) weather regressors, which in the –seasonally adjusted– construction sector growth data …) weather adjusted production series, and our regression-based approach also yields confidence intervals for these adjustments …

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The Relationships between Living Conditions and Life Satisfaction of Elderly People in Istanbul

Berkoz, Lale - 2014

The rate of the elderly population increases rapidly throughout the world. The growth rate of the elderly population in the world is 2.1%, whereas the overall population growth rate is over 1.2 % (Mandiraoglu, 2010). The elderly population rate in the United States varies between 15% and 20 %....

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Perceived Job Insecurity and Well-Being Revisited: Towards Conceptual Clarity

Geishecker, Ingo - 2010

This paper analyzes the impact of job insecurity perceptions on individual well-being. While previous studies on the subject have used the concept of perceived job insecurity rather arbitrarily, the present analysis explicitly takes into account individual perceptions about both the likelihood...

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Social Jealousy and Stigma: Negative Externalities of Social Assistance Payments in Germany

Kassenböhmer, Sonja C.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2010

This paper examines the role of social assistance payments (SAP or Sozialhilfe) in determining levels of life satisfaction in Germany using the SOEP 1995-2004. We find strong evidence that individuals in Germany are negatively influenced by increased SAP payments controlling for income, whether...

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