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childhood diseases, including asthma, on (i) performance on a literacy exam, (ii) whether
the students enrolled in a college preparatory math class, (iii) whether they were in the
twelfth grade by age 17, and (iv) whether they used social assistance. They match school
administrative data, social assistance records, and health records for young adults in
Manitoba, Canada born between 1979 and 1987. With a mother fixed effect (which
controls for time constant family characteristics), they investigate whether having been
treated for asthma at various ages (0-3, 4-8, 9-13, 14-18) affects these young adult
outcomes by using the variation across siblings in the incidence of asthma. They find (at
the 10% level) that (a) asthma at ages 9 to 13 had a significant negative effect on taking a
college preparatory math class and (b) asthma at ages 14 to 18 sometimes had a negative
effect on the literacy score in the 12th grade. They find no effect of earlier asthma,
conditional on current asthma. As the authors acknowledge, their results must be viewed
with caution since two significant coefficients could happen by chance in this framework.
Their identifying assumption is that there are no time varying family characteristics, i.e.,
socioeconomic status, that would be correlated with both asthma and these outcome
variables.
We next discuss below a number of related studies from the epidemiological
literature, all of which are based on cross-section data and a limited number of controls.
As a result, these researchers are much more limited in their ability to deal with selection
and endogeneity issues; this latter problem is accentuated by the fact that none consider
instrumental variable estimation.
107
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 116 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 107 childhood diseases, including asthma, on (i) performance on a literacy exam, (ii) whether the students enrolled in a college preparatory math class, (iii) whether they were in the twelfth grade by age 17, and (iv) whether they used social assistance. They match school administrative data, social assistance records, and health records for young adults in Manitoba, Canada born between 1979 and 1987. With a mother fixed effect (which controls for time constant family characteristics), they investigate whether having been treated for asthma at various ages (0-3, 4-8, 9-13, 14-18) affects these young adult outcomes by using the variation across siblings in the incidence of asthma. They find (at the 10% level) that (a) asthma at ages 9 to 13 had a significant negative effect on taking a college preparatory math class and (b) asthma at ages 14 to 18 sometimes had a negative effect on the literacy score in the 12th grade. They find no effect of earlier asthma, conditional on current asthma. As the authors acknowledge, their results must be viewed with caution since two significant coefficients could happen by chance in this framework. Their identifying assumption is that there are no time varying family characteristics, i.e., socioeconomic status, that would be correlated with both asthma and these outcome variables. We next discuss below a number of related studies from the epidemiological literature, all of which are based on cross-section data and a limited number of controls. As a result, these researchers are much more limited in their ability to deal with selection and endogeneity issues; this latter problem is accentuated by the fact that none consider instrumental variable estimation. 107 |
