between national accounts measures and health, particularly in light of the COVID-19 epidemic which may reduce global … globalized world where international transfers of capital and property rights can have enormous effects on GDP, such as the 26 …

-- on biomarkers and health. Nevertheless, we expect that intellectual convergence to happen slowly …

of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at … in health satisfaction and rise in disability with age are much stronger in poor countries than in rich countries. In …' life or health satisfaction; the fraction of Kenyans who are satisfied with their personal health is the same as the …

associations, together with the ability of subjective wellbeing (SWB) metrics to predict health and behavioral outcomes, have … from the Health Survey for England (HSE) and Scottish Health Surveys (SHeS) we show that its correlates are similar in a … number of ways to those for SWB, and that it is highly correlated with SWB metrics, as well as self-assessed health. Second …

We estimate how the marginal utility of consumption varies with health. To do so, we develop a simple model in which … the impact of health on the marginal utility of consumption can be estimated from data on permanent income, health, and … utility proxies. We estimate the model using the Health and Retirement Study's panel data on the elderly and near-elderly, and …

mental health, life satisfaction, and health care utilization. Because poor health can induce retirement, we instrument for … test. We find strong evidence that retirement improves both health and life satisfaction. While the impact on life … satisfaction occurs within the first 4 years of retirement, many of the improvements in health show up 4 or more years later …

employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First … symptoms and self-reported parenting stress, and negatively associated with self-rated overall health among mothers. Compared … whole, we find only weak evidence that maternal work hours are associated with maternal health, and no evidence that …

safest countries in the world, and live in the most prosperous era in human history. This is paradoxical and troubling. The …, approximately 500,000 individuals. It checks that the key results are not due to cohort effects. Nor do we rely on simple life-satisfaction … world's policy-makers …