Essays in the economics of health and wellbeing

• Autores: Hannes Schwandt
• Directores de la Tesis: Robin Hogarth (codir. tes.), Jorn-Steffen Pischke (codir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat Pompeu Fabra ( España ) en 2012
• Idioma: español
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Ada Ferrer i Carbonell (presid.), Gabrielle Fack (secret.), Nuria Rodríguez-Planas (voc.)
• Materias:
  • Demografía
    • Mortalidad
      • Mortalidad general
  • Ciencias económicas
    • Teoría económica
      • Teoría del bienestar
    • Economía general
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en:  TDX  e-Repositori UPF 
• Resumen

  • The three chapters of this thesis investigate different aspects of the economics of health and wellbeing. The first chapter tests the rationality of life satisfaction forecasts. Contrary to the rational expectations hypothesis it shows that young people and those who are satisfied strongly overpredict future life satisfaction while the elderly and the unsatisfied strongly underpredict it. The second chapter is about how wealth shocks affect the health of retirees in the US. Results indicate strongly positive effects on physical health, mental health and mortality. The third chapter analyzes the effects of graduating in an unfavorable economic environment on graduates' subsequent income, health insurance and mortality. It finds that recession graduates have significantly lower incomes and worse health insurance coverage. And during the outbreak of the HIV/AIDS epidemic AIDS mortality has been significantly higher among these unlucky cohorts.