We use personality traits to better understand the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Personality … traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, which measures sensitivity to threat and … a simple model based on Prospect Theory, where we assume that: (i) life satisfaction is dependent on the gap between …

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

fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong … deprivation indicators as well as in the case of self-reported generic measures of physical health. Lifestyle and chronic health …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 … administrative tax records to investigate whether a relationship exists between health and well-being on the one hand, and individual …

life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …

, mental health and social participation are the strongest predictors of both measures of well-being in older age. However …

British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health …If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by … implications for educational policy. Among adult circumstances, family income accounts for only 0.5% of the variance of life-satisfaction …