Search Results - subject:"STANDARD OF LIVING"

Life Course Risks, Mobility Regimes, and Mobility Consequences : A Comparison of Sweden, Germany, and the U.S

Diprete, Thomas - 2021

income" and standard of living. Occupation-based models of social mobility, however, have limitations that arguably have …

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The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality : Evidence from the Gould Sample

Costa, Dora L. - 2021

This paper documents differences in body size between white, black, and Indian mid-nineteenth century American men and investigates the socioeconomic and demographic determinants of frame size using a unique data set of Civil War soldiers. It finds that over time men have grown taller and...

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Baby Boomers vs Their Parents : Economic Well-being and Health Status

Manchester, Joyce; Weaver, David; Whitman, Kevin - 2021

In this chapter, we use the Social Security Administration’s simulation model known as MINT (Modeling Income in the Near Term) to examine the projected health and economic status of Baby Boomers and their parents during retirement. Our projections indicate that boomers will enjoy higher levels...

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Indigenous Peoples Living in Voluntary Isolation During COVID

Kalantry, Sital; Koeppen, Nicholas - 2021

During the global pandemic, people around the world are at risk of serious illness and death from contact and proximity to other people. But Indigenous peoples, particularly those in voluntary isolation, have always faced that risk. International organizations have relied on the right to...

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Population, Technology, and Growth : from the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond

Galor, Oded; Weil, David N. - 2021

This paper develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growth is positively related to the level of income per capita....

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Empirical Study to Evaluate the Economic Resilience of Agricultural Household with Adjusted Living Standard Index (ALSI) Approached (Case Study for Victims of Merapi’s Eruption 2012)

Muin, Muhamad Fathul - 2021

Bencana dapat menyebabkan perekonomian hancur, terutama sektor pertanian di empat kabupaten: Magelang, Sleman, Klaten, dan Boyolali. Untuk mengevaluasi kondisi ekonomi korban bukanlah sesuatu hal yang mudah, sehingga memerlukan pendekatan alternatif. Oleh karena itu, tujuan dari makalah ini...

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Stock Market Reforms on Standard of Living in Nigeria

Akpunonu, Uju; Nkechukwu, Gabriel Chukwu; Okonkwo, … - 2021

The study examined the effect of stock market reform activities on standard of living in Nigeria for the period of 1986 … on the standard of living in Nigeria. The study was structured around an expo facto research design on secondary data … that both stock market capitalization and stock market volatility have a significant effect on standard of living of the …

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The Health of Nations : The Contribution of Improved Health to Living Standards

Nordhaus, William D. - 2021

Nations generally measure their economic performance using the yardstick of national output and income. It is not widely recognized, however, that conventional measures of national income and output exclude the value of improvements in the health status of the population. The present study...

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Live Long, Live Well : Quantifying the Health of Heterogenous Populations

Mullahy, John - 2021

Various health-, quality-, and disability-adjusted life year or life expectancy (HALY, QALY, DALY; HALE, QALE, DALE) measures have become gold standards for defining outcomes in technology evaluation, population health monitoring, and other evaluative efforts. As such, it is critical that the...

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Subjective Measures of Economic Well-Being and the Influence of Income Uncertainty

Schwarze, Johannes - 2021

This paper provides evidence that subjective measures of individual well being can be used to study the impact of income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation...

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