An anatomy of old-age disability: Time use, affect and experienced utility

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_1AB3277D118D
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
An anatomy of old-age disability: Time use, affect and experienced utility
Périodique
Journal of Health Economics
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Flores  G., Ingenhaag  M., Maurer  J.
ISSN
0167-6296 (Print)
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2015
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
44
Pages
150-160
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Complementing the commonly used concepts of evaluative wellbeing and decision utility, emotional wellbeing and experienced utility are important welfare criteria to assess individuals' subjective wellbeing, especially for valuing health and disability. Yet, almost all empirical evidences on the link between disability and experienced wellbeing come from developed countries. This paper studies the relationship between old-age disability and experienced utility in five low- and middle-income countries. Using data on individual time use and activity-specific affective experiences from an abbreviated version of the Day Reconstruction Method, we document a strong negative association between disability and experienced utility. These differences in experienced utility by disability status are exclusively due to worse activity-specific affective experiences among persons with disabilities. By contrast, disability-related differences in time use provide small compensating effects. Interventions or technologies that facilitate daily life hold most promise to improve experienced utility among persons with disabilities in the developing world.
Mots-clé
Disability, Time use, Experienced utility, Wellbeing, Low-and middle-income countries
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30/10/2015 17:10
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20/08/2019 13:51
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