This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income …

This paper analyzes the influence of children's health and mothers' physical and mental well-being on female labor …, which enables us to measure chil-dren's health based on the occurrence of severe health problems including mental and physi …-cal disabilities, hospitalizations, and preterm births. Since child health is measured at a very young age, we can rule out any of the …