On Friday 19 January 2024, J. Stöckel will defend the doctoral thesis titled: ‘Subjective Perspectives (f)or Objective Truths? Quantifying the impact of health changes on individuals and families using survey data‘.
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- Date
- Friday 19 Jan 2024, 13:00 - 14:30
- Type
- PhD defence
- Space
- Senate Hall
- Building
- Erasmus Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
Brief summary on the aim of the doctoral thesis:
Health is a vital economic resource that is crucial for individual-wellbeing but is characterized by its inherently declining nature over the life-course. Declining health has a range of implications for those who experience it, their families, and society more broadly. Observational survey data on subjective outcomes are an important tool to quantify these broad impacts. Subjective outcome measures concern individual experiences and promise to provide a broader perspective on the impact of declining health than objective health measures like days spent in hospital or disease incidence rates. At the same time, using subjective measures comes with distinct challenges. The primary objective of this dissertation is to investigate how observational survey data can help quantify the broad impacts of declining health. To this end, the chapters of this dissertation cover three topics: Valuing Health Changes using Survey Data, The Impact of Health Changes on Perceptions and Behaviours, and Spillover Effects of Declining Health.
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The public defence will begin exactly at 13.00 hrs. The doors will be closed once the public defence starts, latecomers may be able to watch on the screen outside. There is no possibility of entrance during the first part of the ceremony. Due to the solemn nature of the ceremony, we recommend that you do not take children under the age of 6 to the first part of the ceremony.
