important effects from a number of demographic variables. -- Satisfaction ; income ; labour market status ; health … ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and …

-described by four domains: job or daily activities, social contacts and family, health, and income. Among the four domains, social … contacts and family have the highest impact on global life satisfaction, followed by job and daily activities and health … substantially more with income in the U.S. than in The Netherlands. -- Happiness ; life satisfaction ; vignettes ; reporting bias …

activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. -- comparison ; habituation ; income … ; unemployment ; marriage ; divorce ; health ; religion ; policy …

While there is mounting evidence that large income shocks, e.g. in the form of a job loss, may impact health and … income constant, and health. This paper exploits rich survey data on the near-elderly in Canada paired with their … mortality, little evidence exist on the potential relationship between sustained income volatility, keeping average lifetime …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … health estimates while satisfaction results fluctuate. Underweight women and especially underweight men tend to less …

We develop a theoretical framework that considers four distinct explanatory channels through which neighbors' income … could affect utility: public goods, cost of living, expectations of future income, and the direct effect (relative income … subjective well-being (SWB) data from the U.S. Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index and geographically-based median-income data …

income and parental education) remain good predictors of well-being over 50 years later. In terms of the proximal covariates …, mental health and social participation are the strongest predictors of both measures of well-being in older age. However …

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to … increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are inequality averse over the entire income distribution. However … excess burden on middle-income earners. The paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (GSOEP) from 1985 to …

entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status … their higher income. Physical and mental health play a crucial role in determining both an individual's occupational status … elderly individuals. However, when controlling for health, retirees exhibit an even higher level of life satisfaction compared …

movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is a significant predictor of life satisfaction and mental health …. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we consider both relative and absolute …, whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a consistent predictor of SWB and mental health …