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life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However …
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Using data on American women and the health status of their children, this paper studies the effect of remote work on … female earnings. Instrumental variables estimates, which exploit a temporary child health shock as exogenous variation in the …
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This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio …) cross-sectional causality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health that complement self …-reported measures of health status. Not only does using the panel structure with individual fixed effects mitigate the bias from …
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waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index. Results … from log-linear regressions suggest that, on average, elderly European men and women developed about 20 percent more health … suggesting that health deficits in old age are up to 40 percent higher for children suffering from hunger. The wedge of health …
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We analyze human aging, understood as health deficit accumulation, for a panel of European individuals. For that … purpose, we use four waves of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE dataset) and construct a health ….5 percent more health deficits from one birthday to the next. In non-linear regression (akin to the Gompertz-Makeham model …
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We study biological aging of elderly U.S. Americans born 1904-1966. We use thirteen waves of the Health and Retirement … Study and construct a health deficit index as the number of health deficits present in a person measured relative to the … number of potential deficits. We find that, on average, Americans develop 5 percent more health deficits per year, that men age …
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Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes …, it is far from straightforward how to elicit them and apply them in health-care decision making. This paper provides an … overview of the literature on the measurement of inequality aversion, examines some of the features specific of the health …
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We investigate how the season of birth affects human health and aging. For this purpose, we use five waves of the … Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index for 21 European … spring and summer (compared to autumn). At given age, they have developed about 3.5 percent more health deficits. The bulk of …
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introduction of pension benefits on the health status, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization of rural Chinese adults age 60 … and above. The results point to three main conclusions. First, in addition to improvements in self-reported health, older … adults with access to the pension program experienced significant improvements in several important measures of health …
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-reach with the exception of Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine, and in most Western Asian countries, insurance companies do not see a … need to turn to low-income earners. (iii) Insurance, co-operative and NGO laws of several countries constitute constraints …
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