Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new … may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue, monetary values for a number of health problems are … consistency of health impacts within each well-being measure, hugely different monetary valuations are obtained for the same …

fill this gap by examining the impact of child care subsidy receipt on maternal health and the quality of child … care subsidies are associated with worse maternal health and poorer interactions between parents and their children. In … particular, subsidized mothers report lower levels of overall health and are more likely to show symptoms consistent with anxiety …

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 …

thresholds. Such regime changes are visible to the eye through the lens of subjective satisfaction measures. The case of … Transition countries is particularly impressive in this respect: average life satisfaction scores closely mirrored changes in GDP …

the level of satisfaction with political and economic institutions and with the education and health systems, whereas the … Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses …

residential mobility relate moving behaviour to the housing and neighbourhood satisfaction and pre-move thoughts of individuals …

dozens of countries, and for a large range of well-being measures, including happiness and mental health, well-being is high …

-being distribution has decreased over time. Moreover, health as well as life satisfaction contribute quite substantially to … German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for … nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported satisfaction with life as dimensions. We find that one third of the German …

Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … health estimates while satisfaction results fluctuate. Underweight women and especially underweight men tend to less …