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COPPOLA, Gianluigi - Centro di Economia del Lavoro e di Politica Economica … - 2010

In this paper I will try to explain why lifestyle may have a positive impact on economic growth. First of all, I consider health affecting consumer’s utility and then define a Health Production Function where health is the output and consumer good the input. In this approach a parameter named...

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Capitals and capabilities: Linking structure and agency to reduce health inequalities

Abel, Thomas; Frohlich, Katherine L. - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 2, pp. 236-244

lifestyles to provide the explanation for the dualism between life chances (structure) and choice-based life conduct (agency …

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Lifestyles as Social Contracts between Workers and Organizations

Haunschild, Axel - In: Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr) 63 (2011) 4, pp. 361-375

A more individualized world of work reduces neither the relevance of social institutions for social actors nor minimizes the role of social structure in studies on work, employment, and organization. I seek to broaden the current individualistic concepts of employment contracts by stressing the...

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Liberalitas, Magniﬁcentia, Splendor: The Classic Origins of Italian Renaissance Lifestyles

Guerzoni, Guido - In: History of Political Economy 31 (1999) 5, pp. 332-378

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Modelling transport energy demand: A socio-technical approach

Anable, Jillian; Brand, Christian; Tran, Martino; Eyre, Nick - In: Energy Policy 41 (2012) C, pp. 125-138

technical efficiency but also by lifestyles and socio-cultural factors, few attempts have been made to operationalise these …

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Time and chance happen to them all? Duration modelling versus lifetime incidence of cancer

Howdon, D. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2012

While current work on socioeconomic inequality in cancer looks at lifetime incidence of cancer, it is more informative to consider survival times: healthy time lived without cancer. This paper uses the rst wave of, and latest longitudinal follow-up to, the Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS) to...

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Ex-ante Moral Hazard and Primary Prevention, evidence from Portugal

Tavares, Aida Isabel; Barros, Pedro Pita - Departamento de Economia, Gestão e Engenharia … - 2011

adopt healthy lifestyles, such as taking up sports and not smoking, which are associated with primary prevention. Moreover …

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Car availability explained by the structural relationships between lifestyles, residential location, and underlying residential and travel attitudes

Van Acker, Veronique; Mokhtarian, Patricia L.; Witlox, Frank - In: Transport Policy 35 (2014) C, pp. 88-99

The majority of land use-travel behaviour studies only considers the direct influence of spatial characteristics on daily travel behaviour. However, this framework should be expanded. A first step is to explore the complex interdependencies of long-term lifestyle decisions, medium-term decisions...

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Lifestyle orientations and the adoption of Internet-related technologies in Taiwan

Sarrina Li, Shu-Chu - In: Telecommunications Policy 37 (2013) 8, pp. 639-650

Using Rogers' diffusion of innovation model as the theoretical framework, this study examined the relationships between lifestyle orientations and the adoption of nine Internet-related technologies in Taiwan including IPTV, digital cable, emails, Internet instant messages, Facebook, scanners,...

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Health inequalities over the adult life course: the role of lifestyle choices

Ovrum, Arnstein; Gustavsen, Geir Waehler; Rickertsen, Kyrre - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

females, the income gradients in lifestyles are generally concave in age and slightly decreasing in older age. However, the … role of lifestyles in moderating the relationship between income and self-assessed health appears modest. This result … partly reflects that while the income gradients in lifestyles decrease substantially once we control for education, the …

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