CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Dóka, Ádám |
|---|---|
| Title | The Role of Education, Time Preference, Risk Attitude, and Personality Factors in Health |
| Summary | The thesis presents some evidence that being future oriented is an important health-supporting asset for people with low levels of education compared to the highly educated. Using econometric methods on internationally well-known survey data, in three comparable countries (Armenia, Georgia, and the Ukraine), time preference’s and risk attitude’s effects appear to be predominant in predicting satisfaction with life. Among the personality factors, only emotional stability is a general health-enhancing factor. For agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and extraversion, the effects are less consistent, or they are important predictors in few cases only. In consensus with previous results in the literature, the studied independent variables explain little or nothing from the education gradient, though I found substantial decrease in the education coefficient in the regressions predicting satisfaction with life. I also found considerable evidence for the importance of personality factors in improving self-assessed health indicators. |
| Supervisor | Mihályi, Péter |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/doka_adam.pdf |
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