The distributional effects of adaption and anticipation to ill health on subjective wellbeing

Prashant Gupta, Tapas Mishra, Nigel O'Leary, Mamata Parhi

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Abstract

Adaption and anticipation to reported illness upon subjective wellbeing is analysed across the wellbeing distribution. Anticipation effects are muted, but substantial adaption effects are apparent that differ markedly over the range of wellbeing, being most evident at the upper quartile.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)99-102
Number of pages4
JournalEconomics Letters
Volume136
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2015

Keywords

  • Adaption
  • Anticipation
  • Fixed effect quantile regression
  • Illness
  • Subjective wellbeing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Finance
  • Economics and Econometrics

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