ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … heat significantly increases hospitalizations and deaths. Extreme cold has a negligible effect on population health. High …

-being, in particular with life satisfaction, as well as mental and physical health. The effects are strongest for residents who … are older, accounting for up to a third of the size of the effect of being unemployed on life satisfaction. Using data …

: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction …

This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends … within one year. This leads to the conclusion that the information content of satisfaction scores accentuates recent changes …-term impact on living conditions. The usefulness of satisfaction scores as an indicator of people's living conditions is discussed. …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …

shows a common, quite similar, age-specific pattern of life satisfaction for both Britain and Germany that can be … characterized by three age stages. In the first stage, life satisfaction declines until approximately the fifth life decade. In the …

change in the satisfaction judgments resulting from adaptation to income over time. Adaptation is defined to be …

expectations over two time periods. Life satisfaction is used as a proxy for mental well-being. To identify a causal effect of …

variations in the underlying income type substantially affect tests of the relationship between life satisfaction, income rank …

The thoughts that an individual has about the future contribute substantially to their life satisfaction in a positive … disposition and the potential endogeneity of thoughts and life satisfaction. The reduction in life satisfaction experienced by … individuals’ thoughts about the future substantially increases the explanatory power of standard life satisfaction models. Life …