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individuals to develop asthma which made them more sensitive to current pollution.
While of course this criticism could also be leveled at studies using annual data, as in the
consumer demand literature, it is likely that separability over time periods is less credible
as the size of the period decreases.
Currie and Neidell (2005) evaluate the effect of increased air pollution on infant
mortality during the period 1989 to 2000. The authors construct a weekly pollution
measure similar to that in Neidell (2004), by taking the average of pollution levels
recorded at monitors within 20 miles from of centroid of the zip code weighted by the
inverse distance to the monitor. The authors include zip code month fixed effects and zip
code year fixed effects. The authors also include various mother-specific factors,
including mother’s age, race, ethnicity, education, marital status, zip code of maternal
residence, use of prenatal care, and private/public insurance. Other covariates include
weekly county-level averages for weather, date of birth, birth weight and gestation
period. They use a flexible discreet hazard model where the outcome variable is equal to
one if the child died within the week. They find that in periods of higher pollution, infant
mortality rates are higher, but that prenatal exposure to pollution does not affect infant
mortality. They often find that ozone has the incorrect sign, but attribute that to the fact
that there is a negative correlation between ozone and other pollutants. One possible
criticism is that they must assume there is no unobserved heterogeneity at the individual
or zip code level, since either form of heterogeneity will cause their parameter estimates
to be biased.
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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 114 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 105 individuals to develop asthma which made them more sensitive to current pollution. While of course this criticism could also be leveled at studies using annual data, as in the consumer demand literature, it is likely that separability over time periods is less credible as the size of the period decreases. Currie and Neidell (2005) evaluate the effect of increased air pollution on infant mortality during the period 1989 to 2000. The authors construct a weekly pollution measure similar to that in Neidell (2004), by taking the average of pollution levels recorded at monitors within 20 miles from of centroid of the zip code weighted by the inverse distance to the monitor. The authors include zip code month fixed effects and zip code year fixed effects. The authors also include various mother-specific factors, including mother’s age, race, ethnicity, education, marital status, zip code of maternal residence, use of prenatal care, and private/public insurance. Other covariates include weekly county-level averages for weather, date of birth, birth weight and gestation period. They use a flexible discreet hazard model where the outcome variable is equal to one if the child died within the week. They find that in periods of higher pollution, infant mortality rates are higher, but that prenatal exposure to pollution does not affect infant mortality. They often find that ozone has the incorrect sign, but attribute that to the fact that there is a negative correlation between ozone and other pollutants. One possible criticism is that they must assume there is no unobserved heterogeneity at the individual or zip code level, since either form of heterogeneity will cause their parameter estimates to be biased. 105 |
