physical handicaps. The analysis is based on an individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British … Household Panel Survey data set. This question provides a natural cardinalization of health utility .Our method is a refinement … of the method introduced by Cutler and Richardson (1997). We extend their approach in two directions. First, the health …

model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …

measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary valuation of change in population health and disease burden. Application … influence disease prioritisation. It increases the value of health improvements relative to GDP. …We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan …

This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, the income equivalent of …

) health improvement using administrative data on all Dutch disability benefit applicants. We compare those below the DI … eligibility threshold with those above and find that disincentives significantly reduce work resumption after health improves …