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

less happy than employed people and their reduction in life satisfaction is the larger, the stronger the norm is. …

household members consume market goods with given household income. The "costs of childrenʺ are perceived essentially as market … parental time, which must be diverted from alternative uses such as market work, other house-hold production activities and … particular, the differential incidence of child costs on adult members of the household. In this paper we first of all argue that …