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Easterlin (2005a) demonstrates that people’s aspirations for goods increase to the same
extent as their attainment of goods. He finds that aspirations for non-pecuniary goods,
like marriage, are less impacted by experience. Brickman, Coates, and Janoff-Bulman
(1978) claim that there is complete adaptation to changes in health. The authors examine
changes in life satisfaction from a change in disability status. However, after reviewing
the data they cite, it does seem that people with a disability are less happy than those
without a disability. In a recent article, Oswald and Powdthavee (2008), using a fixed
effect model with current disability and lagged disability included as independent
variables, estimate a 30% adaptation for a severe disability and 50% for a minor
disability. Lucas (2007), on the other hand, finds little to no adaptation to disability
status.
1.3.2 HEALTH CARE
The replacement of the socialized medical system of the former GDR by the
market-based system of the FRG on January 1, 1991 may have had an impact on health
satisfaction or life satisfaction in East Germany relative to the West Germany. Health
care could affect health satisfaction or life satisfaction indirectly through its impact on
health or directly through the benefit of knowing that quality care is available if needed.
The health care system in West Germany was considered more technologically advanced
than that in East Germany and the number of medicines offered in East Germany
increased after reunification. The chief complaints of citizens of the former GDR were
shortages of imported drugs, shortages of supplies, long wait times for elective surgery,
and physically deteriorating hospitals. One survey indicated that sixty one and a half
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Object Description
| Title | Essays on health and well-being |
| Author | Zweig, Jacqueline Smith |
| Author email | smith2@usc.edu; jackiesmith04@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Economics |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-23 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 26 Apr. 2012. |
| Date published | 2012-04-26 |
| Advisor (committee chair) |
Easterlin, Richard A. Ham, John C. |
| Advisor (committee member) | Melguizo, Tatiana |
| Abstract | This dissertation is comprised of three chapters that use microeconometric techniques to investigate the factors that affect people’s well-being. In the first two chapters, well-being is defined as life satisfaction or health satisfaction. The first chapter explores how the movement from socialism to capitalism affected the life satisfaction and health satisfaction of East Germans relative to West Germans after reunification. The second chapter examines whether women are happier, less happy, or equally happy as men in countries at various stages of development. The third chapter examines whether pollution affects the academic performance of school children; their academic performance and achievements will have important implications for their future well-being. |
| Keyword | happiness; well-being |
| Geographic subject | Germany |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1990/2010; 2002/2008 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3782 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Zweig, Jacqueline Smith |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Zweig-4500 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Zweig-4500.pdf |
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| Title | Page 24 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 15 Easterlin (2005a) demonstrates that people’s aspirations for goods increase to the same extent as their attainment of goods. He finds that aspirations for non-pecuniary goods, like marriage, are less impacted by experience. Brickman, Coates, and Janoff-Bulman (1978) claim that there is complete adaptation to changes in health. The authors examine changes in life satisfaction from a change in disability status. However, after reviewing the data they cite, it does seem that people with a disability are less happy than those without a disability. In a recent article, Oswald and Powdthavee (2008), using a fixed effect model with current disability and lagged disability included as independent variables, estimate a 30% adaptation for a severe disability and 50% for a minor disability. Lucas (2007), on the other hand, finds little to no adaptation to disability status. 1.3.2 HEALTH CARE The replacement of the socialized medical system of the former GDR by the market-based system of the FRG on January 1, 1991 may have had an impact on health satisfaction or life satisfaction in East Germany relative to the West Germany. Health care could affect health satisfaction or life satisfaction indirectly through its impact on health or directly through the benefit of knowing that quality care is available if needed. The health care system in West Germany was considered more technologically advanced than that in East Germany and the number of medicines offered in East Germany increased after reunification. The chief complaints of citizens of the former GDR were shortages of imported drugs, shortages of supplies, long wait times for elective surgery, and physically deteriorating hospitals. One survey indicated that sixty one and a half 15 |
