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reported health has also been shown to predict future use of health care (van Doorslaer,
Koolman & Jones, 2004). Self-reported health may also capture some elements of health
status, like pain and suffering, that would not be captured by external observation
(Graham 2009).
Recent research recommends the use of vignettes to anchor responses to self-reported
measures (King, Murray, Salomon, & Tandon., 2004; Kapteyn, Smith, & Van
Soest, 2007; Van Soest, Delaney, Harmon, Kapteyn, & Smith 2007). Much of the work
uses vignettes to make cross-country comparisons more reliable and generally in cross-sectional
settings. Kapteyn et al. (2007) find that a large part of observed differences in
reported work disability between the Netherlands and the United States can be attributed
to different response scales in answering questions on whether they have a work
disability. Van Soest et al. (2007) evaluate the use of vignettes in the context of self-reported
drinking in college students. He concludes that the use the vignettes makes the
self-reported measures more consistent with the objective measures, but also notes that
additional tests are necessary to validate the use of vignettes when there are less obvious
objective measures to use in comparison to the subjective measures. Self-reported health
would fall into the latter case with a less obvious direct objective comparison. In a first
difference model the assumption is that a one-unit change in self-reported health has the
same meaning in East and West Germany. This assumption is more innocuous than in a
cross-section where I would need to assume that a rating of “very good” is the same in
the two regions. In addition, East and West Germany after reunification have similar
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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 |
Description
| Title | Page 37 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 28 reported health has also been shown to predict future use of health care (van Doorslaer, Koolman & Jones, 2004). Self-reported health may also capture some elements of health status, like pain and suffering, that would not be captured by external observation (Graham 2009). Recent research recommends the use of vignettes to anchor responses to self-reported measures (King, Murray, Salomon, & Tandon., 2004; Kapteyn, Smith, & Van Soest, 2007; Van Soest, Delaney, Harmon, Kapteyn, & Smith 2007). Much of the work uses vignettes to make cross-country comparisons more reliable and generally in cross-sectional settings. Kapteyn et al. (2007) find that a large part of observed differences in reported work disability between the Netherlands and the United States can be attributed to different response scales in answering questions on whether they have a work disability. Van Soest et al. (2007) evaluate the use of vignettes in the context of self-reported drinking in college students. He concludes that the use the vignettes makes the self-reported measures more consistent with the objective measures, but also notes that additional tests are necessary to validate the use of vignettes when there are less obvious objective measures to use in comparison to the subjective measures. Self-reported health would fall into the latter case with a less obvious direct objective comparison. In a first difference model the assumption is that a one-unit change in self-reported health has the same meaning in East and West Germany. This assumption is more innocuous than in a cross-section where I would need to assume that a rating of “very good” is the same in the two regions. In addition, East and West Germany after reunification have similar 28 |
