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not move together – between 1997 and 1999 for the younger group and between 1992
and 1995 for the older group. In the regression results in section 1.6, other variables are
significant even when self-reported health is included in the model. If self-reported
health is the same measure as health satisfaction, then no other variables would predict
health satisfaction. Thus, I conclude that self-reported health is a different measure than
health satisfaction.
Infant mortality rates and life expectancy rates for each state in each year are
included as explanatory variables. These are both from the Federal Health Monitoring
System (2010abcd). I also include lagged infant mortality rates in case people use their
previous health care quality as a reference for evaluating current health care quality.
Infant mortality is the number of deaths per 100 individuals. The specification also
includes dummy variables for whether an individual has private insurance or no
insurance, with compulsory insurance as the reference group. Life expectancy rates are
higher in West Germany than in East Germany, and vice versa for mortality rates.
1.5 METHODS
1.5.1 EMPIRICAL SPECIFICATION
Health satisfaction is a function of demographic characteristics, economic
circumstances, health, health care, macroeconomic factors, and personality. The main
empirical strategy used in this paper is a first differenced two-stage least squares model
(2SLS).
31
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 40 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 31 not move together – between 1997 and 1999 for the younger group and between 1992 and 1995 for the older group. In the regression results in section 1.6, other variables are significant even when self-reported health is included in the model. If self-reported health is the same measure as health satisfaction, then no other variables would predict health satisfaction. Thus, I conclude that self-reported health is a different measure than health satisfaction. Infant mortality rates and life expectancy rates for each state in each year are included as explanatory variables. These are both from the Federal Health Monitoring System (2010abcd). I also include lagged infant mortality rates in case people use their previous health care quality as a reference for evaluating current health care quality. Infant mortality is the number of deaths per 100 individuals. The specification also includes dummy variables for whether an individual has private insurance or no insurance, with compulsory insurance as the reference group. Life expectancy rates are higher in West Germany than in East Germany, and vice versa for mortality rates. 1.5 METHODS 1.5.1 EMPIRICAL SPECIFICATION Health satisfaction is a function of demographic characteristics, economic circumstances, health, health care, macroeconomic factors, and personality. The main empirical strategy used in this paper is a first differenced two-stage least squares model (2SLS). 31 |
