We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility … status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects mental health of both themselves and their partners. Single men … retiring experience a drop in mental health. Female retirement has hardly any effect on their own mental health or the mental …

satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, the income equivalent of … health satisfaction changes is estimated. Next, this health satisfaction changes are linked to specific diseases in order to … estimate the income equivalent for these diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as …

income effect differing between richer and poor individuals. The analysis uses a self-reported measure of satisfaction with …

life, called domains, such as health, financial situation, job, leisure, housing, and environment. We postulate a two …

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 …

In this paper we attempt to explain individual, ordinally comparable,satisfaction levels. We postulate a simultaneous … equation model where general satisfaction isexplained by exogenous shock and level variables, and by the values of the … commonexplanatory variables;General Satisfaction may be seen as an aggregate of the six domainsatisfactions. …

happiness and life satisfaction do not substantially increase with their length of stay or across generations, and therefore …