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Do you need less money in retirement?
No full textThe literature has documented a one-off drop in consumption at retirement in Italy. We show that respondents’ subjective evaluation of the minimum amount of money needed “to live comfortably but not in luxury” drops at retirement as well. This finding supports the idea that, even if expenditure falls at retirement, this may have the same effect on money needed, hence no effect on the marginal utility of consumption
Multidimensional poverty across Europe
No full textIncome poverty is commonly encountered in developing and developed countries alike, but in the latter case the incidence rate is lower. Beyond income, the health dimension is recalling the attention of a wide number of studies about poverty. A disjoint analysis of the two components could potentially lead to misleading results, especially in developed countries (Madden, 2008). In this framework Sen’s Capability Approach emerged as the leading alternative to standard economic analysis of poverty and human development generally, arguing that poverty is not
just low level of consumption or income, but it is a broader concept related to the inability of reaching an acceptable standard in several dimensions, e.g. health. This paper presents poverty according to the multidimensional approach. The correlation between these two dimensions of poverty is examined using the
Receiver Operating Characteristics curve (ROC). We are interested in comparing the dynamic of multidimensional poverty across European countries for elderly people, therefore we use data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in
Europe (SHARE) for the years 2004-2006
Multidimensional Poverty across Europe
No full textIncome poverty is commonly encountered in developing and developed countries, but in the latter case the incidence rate is lower. Beyond income, the health dimension is recalling the attention of a wide number of studies about poverty. With the aim of more richer description of poverty in Europe, we adopt a multimensional approach, considering as measure of well-being not only income but also health. Using the Receiver Operating Characteristics curve ROC approach, we will examine the the correlation between income and health, to understand if a multidimensional approach is really useful to describe better the phenomenon and we will compute some indexes of multidimensional poverty
Health literacy and education: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
No full textWe estimate the causal effect of compulsory schooling on health literacy using data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. We exploit the quasi-experimental setting produced by the UK’s 1944 Education Act. We estimate a positive effect of one additional year of schooling on health literacy among women, no significant effects among men. This result is in line with previous findings about the positive effects of compulsory schooling on own health among women and supports the idea that more schooling might have generated efficiency gains in the health production due to improved health literacy
Further Evidence on the Effect of Clean Indoor Air Laws on Smoking: The Italian Case
No full textThe evidence about the effectiveness of anti-smoking legislation on smoking behavior is mixed. We provide new estimates for Italy using unexplored data drawn from the Household Budget Survey. We show that the smoking ban introduced in 2005 has a significant effect on smoking incidence. According to our baseline specification, the ban reduces household-based smoking prevalence by 1.3 percentage points. Results are robust to the various empirical strategies proposed in the literature, even accounting for seasonality
Retirement and Healthy Eating
Full text linkThis paper investigates the effect of retirement on healthy eating using data drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We estimate the causal effect of retiring from work on daily fruit or vegetable consumption by exploiting policy changes in eligibility rules for early and statutory retirement. Our results show that changes in eating behaviour upon retirement are gender-specific: retirement induces men to reduce healthy eating; it has no effect on women. We further show that, for men, retirement increases the probability of becoming obese
Inequality in Italy: an approach based on Shapley value decomposition
No full textThe aim of this paper is to analyse inequality in Italy between 1997 and 2004. We decompose the Gini index of inequality using the Shapley value decomposition (Shapley, 1953; Shorrocks, 1982) in order to rank the contribution of different socio - economic variables to income inequality among individuals and time.
Shapley's value decomposition is a regression based technique that allows to consider different explanatory factors, both economics and demographics. We used data from the Italian Household Budget Survey (ISTAT) in the period 1997 - 2004, previously treated in order to group individuals in cohorts with the aim to understand the dynamic of different factors contribution to inequality, using a Pseudo - Panel approach
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