satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income … income equivalent for various diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as posed in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general …

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 …

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 …

sensitivity of income estimates used in valuation. We address the endogeneity issue by decomposing wellbeing losses into those … relative who had not had an accident. We use of the Fixed Effects Filtered (FEF) estimator to enable the permanent income … coefficient to be estimated free from individual fixed effects bias. This estimate is used instead of the transient income effect …

Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network …. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer … diagnosis (CD), on the health and well- being of an individual's partner. We rely on data from a longitudinal sample of …

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides …-quality panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We also contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life satisfaction …

age of 30 and who have higher income. We also provide evidence of a positive selection into parenthood, whereby happier …

collapses and movements in variables such as health and well-being. Using nationally-representative samples of older people … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about … recessions do not have widespread negative effects on health and well-being. …

positive effect of the migration of daughters on parents' health and life satisfaction, but no such beneficial effects when …We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents …