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). These variables include one's state of health, social support and participation, exercise, job satisfaction and satisfaction …
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Previous research on the determinants of international migration has largely focused on objective factors, such as income. We instead use subjective well-being (SWB) to explain international migration desires, an expressed willingness to migrate. We find that individuals with higher SWB have...
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We study how households choose neighborhoods, how neighborhoods affect child ability, and how housing vouchers … choices and changes in child ability of the poorest households in our sample under various housing-voucher policies. We …
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Researchers and policy makers have explored the possibility of restricting the use of housing vouchers to neighborhoods … estimate preferences over neighborhoods of likely recipients of housing vouchers in Los Angeles. We combine simulations of the … children. Simulations suggest a policy that restricts housing vouchers to the top 20% of neighborhoods maximizes expected …
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life, called domains, such as health, financial situation, job, leisure, housing, and environment. We postulate a two …
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physical handicaps. The analysis is based on an individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British … Household Panel Survey data set. This question provides a natural cardinalization of health utility .Our method is a refinement … of the method introduced by Cutler and Richardson (1997). We extend their approach in two directions. First, the health …
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This paper addresses the trade-off between unfavourable air pollution levels and favourable weather conditions for selecting a date for the staging of an outdoor event. For an event date that has been fixed, it presents a personal preference-based data-driven decision framework for individual...
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the interactions between human capital, productivity and health are explored. Most of the world's growth in population … raising living standards, improving health standards, and altering time allocation decisions. In most currently poor and …
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Anti-poverty policies often aim to reach poor individuals by targeting poor households. However, intra-household inequality may mean many poor individuals reside in non-poor households. Using Bangladeshi data, we first show that undernourished individuals are spread across the household...
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The globalization of the economy has placed tremendous pressure on the modern family. Throughout the developed world, marriage rates are declining, birth and fertility rates are falling, real wages are flat or declining, and hours of family external labor supplied are rising. Finding a spouse...
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