interventions? One way is to use survey-based welfare indicators such as the OECD Better Life Index. It invites people to weight a …

health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …

Welfare economic analysis of health issues and policies can provide well balanced orderings of the state of the economy …, health outcomes and social welfare for both a developing and a developed country. Economic growth can increase health … negative externalities which reduce health outcomes (particularly when biological health limits are reached). A new health …

Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network …. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer … diagnosis (CD), on the health and well-being of an individual's partner. We rely on data from a longitudinal sample of …

This paper studies the long-term impact of a paid parental leave reform in former East Germany in 1986 on maternal … physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a …-term physical and mental health and subjective well-being. There is weak, but not robust, evidence for increased satisfaction with …

Utilizing the 2015 wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) that covers 7045 households, we … looked after. The favorable effects on mental health seem limited to grandparents living in rural areas and apply especially … rather than being incurred indirectly due to better health or financial situation of grandparents. …

The production index is an important indicator for assessing the cyclical state of the economy. Unfortunately, the …

including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as …