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 …

disparate effects by age. We find that those approaching retirement age (aged 55 to 64) experienced reduced life-satisfaction … examine the impact of the Great Recession on subjective well-being (as measured by life satisfaction) and attempt to identify … or unemployment trends, but may be explained by wealth effects. For example, we find that the life satisfaction of those …

Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … the problem of reverse causality (running from health condition to retirement). Our findings indicate that retirement … satisfaction in case of unexpected positive health shocks). Other indicators of mental and physical health taken from the SF-36 …

health substantially. Momentary happiness and life satisfaction also decline in response to Covid-19, but to a smaller extent … pandemic and two lockdowns on the mental health and subjective well-being of German workers. Employing an event-study design … of well-being in certain areas of life, such as satisfaction with the job and with leisure, which are negatively affected …

the psychological health of our citizens? This paper reports the first large-scale longitudinal research into envy and its … measures of SF-36 mental health and psychological well-being, four main conclusions emerge. First, the young are especially … envy today is a powerful predictor of worse SF-36 mental health and well-being in the future. A change from the lowest to …

economic good or bad, and hence serves as a prime example of irrational behavior reducing individual health and happiness …. Contrary to previous research, we find no health impact when TV consumption increases. For life satisfaction, we even find …

satisfaction include respondent's sex, education, place of residence, self-rated health status, cognitive ability (using mini …-old. Overall, our findings show that health and economic status are by far the most significant predictors of life satisfaction …This study investigates the determinants of life satisfaction among the oldest-old (i.e. individuals aged 80 or over …

support. We also estimate responses to life satisfaction and find evidence that spill-over benefits from spousal retirement … support changes around retirement. We also examine whether social support moderates dynamics in mental wellbeing around … retirement and consider both own and spouse's retirement. Using longitudinal data from Australia, we find little effect of own or …

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 …

traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information on citizens' happiness, life satisfaction, and other …