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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 …
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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 …
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, mental health and social participation are the strongest predictors of both measures of well-being in older age. However …
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. 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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information on citizens' happiness, life satisfaction, and other …
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We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than …
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Older people experience high rates of depression and suicide, yet they make a positive net contribution to the economy through activities such as employment, volunteering, and looking after grandchildren. The wellbeing of older people is therefore important not only on moral but also economic...
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