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consequences of two mainly unanticipated negative shocks, being a crime victim and experiencing a serious illness or injury. We … wellbeing. Specifically, the literature has found a strong correlation between having an internal locus of control and standard … find that these events have large negative consequences on both subjective wellbeing and objective economic outcomes. For …
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wellbeing', and 'gender equality' by 2030. It is thus important to investigate son preference to inform policy-makers of the …
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wellbeing', and 'gender equality' by 2030. It is thus important to investigate son preference to inform policy-makers of the …
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Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey (waves 2001-2014), we construct measures of unexpected...
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Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia … from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes …
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Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia … from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes …
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effects of violent crime victimisation on diverse measures of wellbeing. These results are then subsequently used to calculate …The costs of violent crime victimisation are often left to a judge, tribunal or jury to determine; leading to the … intangible costs. First, individual-area fixed-effects models allowing for adaptation to crime are estimated to assess the …
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Dieses Papier analysiert den Zusammenhang zwischen individueller Kontrollüberzeugung ("locus of control") und Sparverhalten in Form von Vermögensakkumulation, Sparraten und Portfolio-Entscheidungen. Locus of control is ein psychologisches Konzept, welches die individuelle Überzeugung über...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between individuals' locus of control and their savings behavior, i.e. wealth accumulation, savings rates, and portfolio choices. Locus of control is a psychological concept that captures individuals' beliefs about the controllability of life events and is a...
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The lack of data on how the social condition of Indigenous people varies throughout Australia has created difficulties in allocating government and community programs across Indigenous communities. In the past, spatial microsimulation has been used to derive small area estimates to overcome such...
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