find that the married have a less deep U-shape in life satisfaction across age groups than do the unmarried, indicating … that marriage may help ease the causes of the mid-life dip in life satisfaction and that the benefits of marriage are … marriage and life satisfaction, and find that well-being effects of marriage are about twice as large for those whose spouse is …

We measure the impact of individuals' looks on life satisfaction/happiness. Using five data sets, from the U.S., Canada … additional satisfaction/happiness among men, 0.12 among women. Accounting for a wide variety of covariates, particularly effects …

rankings are important determinants of mortality and the evolution of the health indicator in the survey. For men aged 65 …

A large literature following Ruhm (2000) suggests that mortality falls during recessions and rises during booms. The … of the relationship between business cycles and mortality are highly sensitive to assumptions related to migration. After … adjusting for migration, we find that mortality increased during the cotton recession, but was largely unaffected by the coal …

This paper estimates the value of a statistical life (VSL), or the willingness to trade-off wealth and mortality risk … approach and significant variation in retention bonuses and mortality risk, we recover average VSL estimates that range between … Rosen's (1974) vision to recover indifference curves between wealth and non-market goods (e.g., mortality risk) and document …

assumptions of full annuitization and deterministic health. Our framework can value the prevention of mortality and of illness … add $127 billion to the value of a one percent decline in future mortality …

This paper develops the first globally comprehensive and empirically grounded estimates of mortality risk due to future … temperature increases caused by climate change. Using 40 countries' subnational data, we estimate age-specific mortality … adaptation. We uncover a U-shaped relationship where extreme cold and hot temperatures increase mortality rates, especially for …