This paper contributes to the small but growing literature evaluating the health effects of the Earned Income Tax … federal EITC expansion on several outcomes related to mental health and subjective well-being. The identification strategy … suggest that the 1990 EITC reform generated sizeable health benefits for low-skilled mothers. Such women experienced lower …

. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we consider both relative and absolute … movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is a significant predictor of life satisfaction and mental health …, whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a consistent predictor of SWB and mental health …

same group of individuals to assess and quantify changes in mental health among ethnic groups in the UK. We confirm the … previously documented average deterioration in mental health for the whole sample of individuals interviewed pre- and post …-COVID-19, and uncover four new facts. First, ethnicity predicts mental health deterioration when interacted with gender. Among …

pandemic and two lockdowns on the mental health and subjective well-being of German workers. Employing an event-study design … health substantially. Momentary happiness and life satisfaction also decline in response to Covid-19, but to a smaller extent …

dimensions of well-being: mental health problems, self-rated health, and life satisfaction for 3,697 students. Data is collected …, we show that a strong decline in mental health is associated with changes in educational and career plans and transition …

We provide novel evidence on how the COVID-19 global health and economic crisis is affecting overall life satisfaction …-specific satisfaction during the COVID-19 outbreak, except satisfaction with health. These declines coincide with the introduction of a …

health ; depression ; happiness ; Easterlin paradox …