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actually stayed. I would be more concerned that selection was driving my results if the
coefficient on the interaction term was positive. In column (2), neither the coefficient on
heath satisfaction nor the interaction is significant. For the older age group in column
(3), I find that health satisfaction does affect whether or a not a person ever leaves the
sample, but that the difference is the same in East and West Germany. Since the
likelihood of leaving the sample is not different for East and West Germany, I am less
concerned that the conclusions regarding their relative trends are affected by attrition. In
column (4), the coefficient on health satisfaction is significant again, but the interaction
term is not. Overall the coefficients suggest that the relative trends in health satisfaction
are not driven by attrition.
1.7.2 COMPARISON TO SUBSETS OF THE INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES
In order to investigate the stability of the coefficients on self-reported health in
the 2SLS model, I re-run these regressions using each of the instruments separately. The
results are presented in Appendix 1.B. The coefficients in the health satisfaction and life
satisfaction regressions for the younger group remain fairly stable, ranging from 1.21 to
1.33 and 0.411 to 0.676, respectively. For the older age group, the results are less stable,
which is consistent with the fact that the F-statistic is smaller in the main first-stage
results. For health satisfaction, the self-reported health coefficient ranges from 1.25 to
2.9; for life satisfaction, it ranges from 0.97 to 1.36. The larger coefficients occur when
lagged traffic accidents is the only instrumental variable. The effect of health is revealed
for the subpopulations whose health is predicted by alcohol related traffic accidents. One
would expect that the coefficient for these subpopulations would be greater than for the
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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 64 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 55 actually stayed. I would be more concerned that selection was driving my results if the coefficient on the interaction term was positive. In column (2), neither the coefficient on heath satisfaction nor the interaction is significant. For the older age group in column (3), I find that health satisfaction does affect whether or a not a person ever leaves the sample, but that the difference is the same in East and West Germany. Since the likelihood of leaving the sample is not different for East and West Germany, I am less concerned that the conclusions regarding their relative trends are affected by attrition. In column (4), the coefficient on health satisfaction is significant again, but the interaction term is not. Overall the coefficients suggest that the relative trends in health satisfaction are not driven by attrition. 1.7.2 COMPARISON TO SUBSETS OF THE INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES In order to investigate the stability of the coefficients on self-reported health in the 2SLS model, I re-run these regressions using each of the instruments separately. The results are presented in Appendix 1.B. The coefficients in the health satisfaction and life satisfaction regressions for the younger group remain fairly stable, ranging from 1.21 to 1.33 and 0.411 to 0.676, respectively. For the older age group, the results are less stable, which is consistent with the fact that the F-statistic is smaller in the main first-stage results. For health satisfaction, the self-reported health coefficient ranges from 1.25 to 2.9; for life satisfaction, it ranges from 0.97 to 1.36. The larger coefficients occur when lagged traffic accidents is the only instrumental variable. The effect of health is revealed for the subpopulations whose health is predicted by alcohol related traffic accidents. One would expect that the coefficient for these subpopulations would be greater than for the 55 |
