Life (evaluation), HIV/AIDS, and Death in Africa

Deaton, Angus; Fortson, Jane; Tortora, Robert D.

doi:10.3386/w14637

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“…Thus, this particular cohort of HAART patients did not appear willing to sacrifice health for continued access to the disability grant. It should be noted that this runs contrary to recent work (based on hedonic regressions) that suggesting that Africans place a low monetary value on their lives and health [30].…”

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Social Grants, Welfare, and the Incentive to Trade-Off Health for Income among Individuals on HAART in South Africa

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South Africa's government disability grants are considered important in providing income support to low-income AIDS patients. Indeed, anecdotal evidence suggests that some individuals may opt to compromise their health by foregoing Highly Active Antiretroviral Treatment (HAART) to remain eligible for the grant. In this study, we examined the disability grant's importance to individual and household welfare, and the impact of its loss using a unique longitudinal dataset of HAART patients in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. We found that grant loss was associated with sizeable declines in income and changes in household composition. However, we found no evidence of individuals choosing poor health over grant loss. Our analysis also suggested that though the grants officially target those too sick to work, some people were able to keep grants longer than expected, and others received grants while employed. This has helped cushion people on HAART, but other welfare measures need consideration.

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“…Studies on the altruism‐health nexus that do not focus on contingent valuations are even scarcer. Using a methodology similar to that of van den Berg and Ferrer‐i‐Carbonell (2007), Deaton et al (2009) estimate the compensation required to offset a reduction in well‐being caused by the death of an immediate family member. They find that, although death in the family has a modest impact on evaluations of general well‐being, it does have a large impact on “affect” measures (depression and sadness, for example).…”

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What Is the Value of (My and My Family's) Good Health?

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2009

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This paper uses several waves of the General Social Survey (GSS) including data for up to about 32,000 individuals to estimate the effect of a variety of health conditions on happiness. We show that healthy people are in general happier than individuals with poor health, controlling for a number of personal and household characteristics. On the basis of the regression results, we computed the monetary value of good health, suggesting that relatively large sums of money would be required to compensate individuals for the loss in happiness associated with poor health. Finally, we show that people become unhappy when the health status of their loved ones deteriorates. In particular, the compensating value associated with a spouse's poor health can be very large, thus pointing to some altruism in the relationship between health status and happiness. Copyright 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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Happiness, Equivalent Incomes and Respect for Individual Preferences

2015

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In this paper, we study interpersonal comparisons of wellbeing. We show that using subjective wellbeing (SWB) levels can be in conflict with individuals' judgments about their own lives. We propose therefore an alternative wellbeing measure in terms of equivalent incomes that respects individual preferences. We show how SWB surveys can be used to derive the ordinal information about preferences needed to calculate equivalent incomes. We illustrate our approach with Russian panel data (RLMS-HSE) for the period 1995-2003 and compare it to standard wellbeing measures such as expenditures and SWB. We find that different groups are identified as worst off.For nothing is more certain, than that despair has almost the same effect on us with enjoyment, and that we are no sooner acquainted with the impossibility of satisfying any desire, than the desire itself vanishes.David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

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Life (evaluation), HIV/AIDS, and Death in Africa

Cited by 26 publications

References 21 publications

Social Grants, Welfare, and the Incentive to Trade-Off Health for Income among Individuals on HAART in South Africa

Social Grants, Welfare, and the Incentive to Trade-Off Health for Income among Individuals on HAART in South Africa

What Is the Value of (My and My Family's) Good Health?

Happiness, Equivalent Incomes and Respect for Individual Preferences

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