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scholarly and program interest in the effects of household and neighborhood living standards on health. Yet very few studies of … developing-country cities have examined these issues. This paper investigates whether in these cities, the health of women and … some 85 Demographic and Health surveys, and modelling living standards using factor-analytic MIMIC methods, we find, first …
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housing on health and on income? How do we choose between policies in completely different areas, such as an education policy … and a health policy? Treasury's Living Standards Framework provides one possible starting point, but it provides little …
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with twelve concrete health impairments. Specifically, we analyze whether subjective well-being predicts longer survival in … decrease survival in our sample, even controlling for the severity of health problems. But our results cast doubt on strong … significant interactions between substantive health impairments and life satisfaction. Higher subjective well-being may keep you …
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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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fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong … deprivation indicators as well as in the case of self-reported generic measures of physical health. Lifestyle and chronic health …
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fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong … deprivation indicators as well as in the case of self-reported generic measures of physical health. Lifestyle and chronic health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603850
We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … to worse mental and physical health outcomes in old age as reflected in particular in worse cognitive function, a higher …
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We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … to worse mental and physical health outcomes in old age as reflected in particular in worse cognitive function, a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855348
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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. Ultimately, the effects on longer-run outcomes (subjective health, wellbeing, education) are grave and similar for both genders. …
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