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logistic regressions, the authors find that children with severe asthma alone are nearly
three times as likely to have severe behavioral problems as children without a chronic
condition. Halterman et al. (2006) investigate the relationship between behavioral
problems and asthma symptoms for a cohort of 1,619 inner-city students in Rochester,
New York. The parents of these kindergarten-age children were surveyed about their
children’s health and behavior. The authors find that children with persistent asthma
score worse on peer interactions and task orientation, and are more likely to exhibit shy
and anxious behaviors compared to non-asthmatic children.17
Finally, Pastor, Sadd, and Morello-Frosch (2004) evaluate the relationship
between academic performance and environmental hazards in the Los Angeles Unified
School District in 1999. They combine data on schools’ Academic Progress Index (API)
with information on their proximity to Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) emissions and
census tract-level estimated respiratory risks associated with concentrations of 148
ambient air toxins. This latter measure of exposure at the tract-level is the sum of hazard
ratios for each pollutant, where the hazard ratio is calculated by dividing the EPA’s tract-level
exposure estimate for a particular pollutant by the amount of toxicant below which
there should be no adverse health effects. According to the California Department of
Education (2010, p. 6), the API “is calculated by converting a student’s performance on
statewide assessments across multiple content areas into points on the API scale. These
points are then averaged across all students and all tests.” Each school receives one API
17 According to the National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute of the National Institutes of Health (2007, p.
72), asthma is considered persistent if the patient experiences symptoms more than two days per week,
limitation in activities, some nighttime awakenings or use of short acting beta2 agonists combined with
either more than two exacerbations requiring oral steroids or more than four wheezing episodes longer
lasting than a day per year.
110
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 119 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 110 logistic regressions, the authors find that children with severe asthma alone are nearly three times as likely to have severe behavioral problems as children without a chronic condition. Halterman et al. (2006) investigate the relationship between behavioral problems and asthma symptoms for a cohort of 1,619 inner-city students in Rochester, New York. The parents of these kindergarten-age children were surveyed about their children’s health and behavior. The authors find that children with persistent asthma score worse on peer interactions and task orientation, and are more likely to exhibit shy and anxious behaviors compared to non-asthmatic children.17 Finally, Pastor, Sadd, and Morello-Frosch (2004) evaluate the relationship between academic performance and environmental hazards in the Los Angeles Unified School District in 1999. They combine data on schools’ Academic Progress Index (API) with information on their proximity to Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) emissions and census tract-level estimated respiratory risks associated with concentrations of 148 ambient air toxins. This latter measure of exposure at the tract-level is the sum of hazard ratios for each pollutant, where the hazard ratio is calculated by dividing the EPA’s tract-level exposure estimate for a particular pollutant by the amount of toxicant below which there should be no adverse health effects. According to the California Department of Education (2010, p. 6), the API “is calculated by converting a student’s performance on statewide assessments across multiple content areas into points on the API scale. These points are then averaged across all students and all tests.” Each school receives one API 17 According to the National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute of the National Institutes of Health (2007, p. 72), asthma is considered persistent if the patient experiences symptoms more than two days per week, limitation in activities, some nighttime awakenings or use of short acting beta2 agonists combined with either more than two exacerbations requiring oral steroids or more than four wheezing episodes longer lasting than a day per year. 110 |
