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families, asthmatic children have only a slightly higher failure rate than non-asthmatic
children.16 With a sample of 1,058 kindergarten-age children from Rochester, New York
in 1998, Halterman et al. (2001) compare the parent-reported development skills of
asthmatic children to non-asthmatic children. After controlling for type of health
insurance, education of the care-giver, gender, and pre-kindergarten education, the
authors find that asthmatic kindergarten-aged children scored lower in school readiness
skills (one category of reported development skills), than their non-asthmatic peers. Butz
et al. (1995) obtain demographic, asthma symptoms and psychosocial information for
392 children in kindergarten through eighth grade in 42 schools in Baltimore, Maryland.
Asthma symptoms are divided into low, medium, and high levels. A child is considered
to be exhibiting behavior problems if her score on a questionnaire containing
standardized psychosocial questions is higher than a given threshold. Using logistic
regressions, the authors conclude that parents who report that their children have higher
levels of asthma symptoms are twice as likely to report a behavioral problem compared to
parents who report lower levels of asthma symptoms.
Bussing, Halfon, Benjamin, and Wells (1995) first use responses to the 1988
National Health Interview Survey on Child Health to categorize children into those who
suffer from asthma alone, those who suffer from asthma combined with other chronic
conditions, those who suffer from other chronic conditions alone or those who have no
chronic (including asthmatic) conditions. They then combine this information with a
Behavior Problem Index constructed from psychosocial questions in the survey. Using
16 This suggests the possibility of heterogeneous asthma effects by socioeconomic status, but we felt we did
not have sufficient data to explore this possibility in our analysis.
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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 118 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 109 families, asthmatic children have only a slightly higher failure rate than non-asthmatic children.16 With a sample of 1,058 kindergarten-age children from Rochester, New York in 1998, Halterman et al. (2001) compare the parent-reported development skills of asthmatic children to non-asthmatic children. After controlling for type of health insurance, education of the care-giver, gender, and pre-kindergarten education, the authors find that asthmatic kindergarten-aged children scored lower in school readiness skills (one category of reported development skills), than their non-asthmatic peers. Butz et al. (1995) obtain demographic, asthma symptoms and psychosocial information for 392 children in kindergarten through eighth grade in 42 schools in Baltimore, Maryland. Asthma symptoms are divided into low, medium, and high levels. A child is considered to be exhibiting behavior problems if her score on a questionnaire containing standardized psychosocial questions is higher than a given threshold. Using logistic regressions, the authors conclude that parents who report that their children have higher levels of asthma symptoms are twice as likely to report a behavioral problem compared to parents who report lower levels of asthma symptoms. Bussing, Halfon, Benjamin, and Wells (1995) first use responses to the 1988 National Health Interview Survey on Child Health to categorize children into those who suffer from asthma alone, those who suffer from asthma combined with other chronic conditions, those who suffer from other chronic conditions alone or those who have no chronic (including asthmatic) conditions. They then combine this information with a Behavior Problem Index constructed from psychosocial questions in the survey. Using 16 This suggests the possibility of heterogeneous asthma effects by socioeconomic status, but we felt we did not have sufficient data to explore this possibility in our analysis. 109 |
