impediments. The analysis is based on the individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British Household Panel … regarding the relationship between the latent variable "health" and its evaluation into observable QALY's. Second, we allow the …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

This paper offers an approach to assessing quality-of-life, based on Sen's (1985) theory, which it uses to understand … also find evidence that a small number of functionings are higher for those with a disability, as our theory allows. The … paper concludes by discussing possible implications for policy and health assessment methods. …

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, we estimate the income …

We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i … physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are largely …

Disease". Evidence from OECD countries suggests that health inequalities are strongly correlated with many dimensions of socio … from conception to childhood - affect a child's health trajectory in the long-term. By the 21st century, a wide body of … research had emerged, incorporating the original "Fetal Origins Hypothesis" into the "Developmental Origins of Health and …

. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing … dependence of economic consequences on (i) disease characteristics; (ii) inequalities among individuals in terms of … and their macroeconomic repercussions. Fourth, we discuss the health toll and economic impacts of five infectious diseases …

This short essay reviews Gary Becker's contributions and influence in health economics. It was originally prepared for …

health (11-14 percent). In addition, among the age-ineligible adults, the pension scheme shifts them from farming to non …-farming work, lowers insurance participation rate, but does not change income, expenditure or health significantly. Finally, among …, improved health, and higher schooling rate. …

, and health measures) to examine the consistency of the relationship. We find that the relationship is both scale …