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immigrants’ growing aspirations and expectations that follow from their habituation to better conditions in their host country …
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Ethiopia. Using individual and household level data collected in rural Ethiopia, we examine if aspirations are strongly … associated with well-being outcomes, as posited in the aspirations failure framework articulated by Ray (2006) and others. We … employ both bivariate and multivariate analyses. We find that aspirations (particularly that of the household head) are …
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immigrants' growing aspirations and expectations that follow from their habituation to better conditions in their host country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011924808
A national household survey for 2002, containing a specially designed module on subjective well-being, is used to estimate pioneering happiness functions in rural China. The variables predicted by economic theory to be important for happiness are relatively unimportant. The analysis suggests...
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The paper examines the association between marital status and self-reported health status of Indian adults. A … confirm linkages between marital status and health and show that this relationship is sensitive to the age and gender. Based … on findings, the paper argues that the implication of marital status on health could be different for adults of different …
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The paper examines the association between marital status and self-reported health status of Indian men and women of … different ages. Estimation results reveal linkages between marital status and health and show that this relationship is … life could be an important target group for health policy intervention. …
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This paper investigates the impact of demographic shocks on optimal decisions about saving, life insurance, and, most centrally, asset allocation. We analyze these choices within the framework of a life-cycle model that features exogenous changes in family composition, heterogeneity in lifetime...
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life, health, and work are important in determining the course of happiness. However, life events do not necessarily …
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employment and health. This paper examines the factors that determine households’ subjective evaluation of their living standards …
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The multidimensionality of poverty is now widely acknowledged. Some recent studies in developed countries show that there is a weak correlation between the monetary poverty approach and the household's subjective perception of their well-being, suggesting that the subjective perception of...
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