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 …

evidence of health benefits. The decline in well-being is especially pronounced in the first year after policy implementation …

adults' well-being indirectly through the health of their children. Results show that ozone decreases the well-being of … workdays to care for a sick child, providing evidence on the children's health channel to adults' welfare losses. …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort …-in- Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in …-dimensionality in these health effects. The empirical findings reflect the multidimensionality but allow for deriving two broader …

into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains …, finance, health, leisure, housing, and environment. We distinguish between long-term and short-term effects. Next, we explain … domain satisfactions and Subjective Well-Being by objectively measurable variables such as income. We estimate a model for …

person characteristics (including personality traits), life events and measures of well-being (life satisfaction, positive … satisfaction. Using these data, the paper suggests a major revision to the set point or dynamic equilibrium theory of SWB in order … satisfaction are those who score high on the personality traits of extraversion (E) and/or neuroticism (N) and/or openness to …

Examined the concurrent and cross-lagged spousal similarity in life satisfaction over a 21-year period. Analyses were … higher than oneyear retest similarity, revealing spousal similarity in the variable component of life satisfaction. Spousal … satisfaction. Finally, there was considerable spousal similarity in the stable component of life satisfaction over 20-years. The …

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 …

This paper uses a set of panel data from happiness surveys, jointly with data on per capita income and pollution, to …