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The consequences of measurement error when estimating the impact of obesity on income

O’Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-20

This paper examines the consequences of using self-reported measures of BMI when estimating the effect of BMI on income … overestimate the relationship between BMI and income. We show that neither the conditional expectation estimator nor the …

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Erfolgreich Altern : Lebensbedingungen in der Kindheit und soziale Ungleichheit haben großen Einfluss

Brandt, Martina; Deindl, Christian; Hank, Karsten - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 7, pp. 11-14

In dieser Studie wird untersucht, inwieweit die Lebensbedingungen in der Kindheit und das Ausmaß sozialer Ungleichheit die individuelle Chance beeinflussen, erfolgreich, das heißt gesund und aktiv, zu altern. Europaweite Daten, die im Rahmen der SHARELängsschnittstudie erhoben wurden,...

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Menschen mit hohem Einkommen leben länger

Kroh, Martin; Neiss, Hannes; Kroll, Lars; Lampert, Thomas - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 38, pp. 3-15

additional factors are taken into account, a significant income effect remains at least for men: those with a high income at age …In Germany, those from affluent households have a significantly higher further life expectancy at the age of 65 than …-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), indicates that the lower life expectancy of women in low-income households is associated with …

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A modified Kakwani measure for health inequality

Fjugushige, Mototsugu; Ishikawa, Noriko; Maekawa, Satoko - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 10, pp. 1-7

also be interpreted as the income/consumption expenditure elasticity evaluated at the mean. Additionally, we propose a …

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