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Healthy Climate, Healthy Bodies : Optimal Fuel Taxation and Physical Activity
den Bijgaart, Inge van; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2021
Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has … identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314801
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Healthy climate, healthy bodies : optimal fuel taxation and physical activity
Van den Bijgaart, I. M.; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2020
Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has … identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387641
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Does Commuting Affect Health?
Künn-Nelen, Annemarie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper analyzes the relation between commuting time and health in the United Kingdom. I focus on four different … types of health outcomes: subjective health measures, objective health measures, health behavior, and health care … utilization. Fixed effect models are estimated with British Household Panel Survey data. I find that whereas objective health and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274367
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Between-Person Disparities in the Progression of Late-Life Well-Being
Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Fauth, Elizabeth; Schupp, … - 2009
Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. In this chapter, we argue that focusing on a phase of life during which this positive picture does not necessarily prevail promises to help us better understand between-person disparities in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600844
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The structure of happiness: A vector autoregressive approach
Binder, Martin; Ward, Felix - 2011
income, health, worries, marital status and employment status. With this technique we can simultaneously analyze the impact … changes in the named life domains are followed by decreases in subjective well-being (except for health, which is followed by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281848
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Causal linkages between work and life satisfaction and their determinants in a structural VAR approach
Coad, Alex; Binder, Martin - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 2, pp. 263-268
Work and life satisfaction depend on a number of pecuniary and non-pecuniary factors at the workplace and determine these in turn. We analyze these causal linkages using a structural vector autoregression approach for a German sample of the working populace from 1984 to 2008, finding that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933298
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Between-Person Disparities in the Progression of Late-Life Well-Being
Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Fauth, Elizabeth; Schupp, … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. In this chapter, we argue that focusing on a phase of life during which this positive picture does not necessarily prevail promises to help us better understand between-person disparities in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018723
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The Structure of Happiness: A Vector Autoregressive Approach
Binder, Martin; Ward, Felix - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2011
income, health, worries, marital status and employment status. With this technique we can simultaneously analyze the impact … changes in the named life domains are followed by decreases in subjective well-being (except for health, which is followed by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147499
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Female Suicide and the Concept of the Midlife Crisis
Oswald, Andrew J.; Tohamy, Ahmed - 2017
The idea that humans especially females are prone to some form of 'midlife crisis' has typically been viewed with extreme skepticism by social scientists. We point out the potential equivalence between an age U-shape in a new well-being literature and a matching hill-shape in especially female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653487
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Imitative obesity and relative utility
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Van … - 2009
If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269287