This paper assesses the long-term subjective well-being and mental health toll of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 in the … causal long-term effect of the disaster on life satisfaction is established by exploiting variation in official radiation … data which are linked to survey respondents through information on their place of living in 1986. We find higher depression …

unprecedented rate with unknown implications for society. We estimate the causal effect of this increase on mental health outcomes … increase in antidepressant sales causes a sharp increase of hospital admissions related to depression symptoms. An alternative …

This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among … health for them and their (unemployed) husbands. Fourth, pre-existing social networks are associated with higher mental …

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 …

search data to document how the great economic crisis has affected people's well-being and health studying the US, Germany …

satisfaction is negative just before the implementation and positive afterward. Last, I find evidence that smokers do not favor the …

the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the … ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and …

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 …

Europe (SHARE) to assess the effect of ageing and health on the life satisfaction of the oldest old (defined as 75 and older …This analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in …). We observe a U-shaped relationship between age and levels of life satisfaction for individuals aged between 16 and …

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 …