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 …

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 …

-2008 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System random sample of 1.3 million United States citizens. Life-satisfaction in each U …

Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses … the level of satisfaction with political and economic institutions and with the education and health systems, whereas the … positive and significant effect on individuals' overall happiness. Fiscal decentralization also exerts a significant effect on …

-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 …

,000 children into adulthood, we show that the negative effect of unemployment on mental health and life satisfaction is almost four …

This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the first three waves of … applied to identify causal effects. It is found that retirement significantly increases the risk of being diagnosed with a …. Estimates also indicate that retirement has quite diverse effects for different individuals. …

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 …

affect well-being and ill-being. The implication of the findings in this paper for the happiness literature is that for …

We provide an explanation for the common finding that the effect of retirement on life satisfaction is negligible. For …-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and show that the effect of voluntary retirement on satisfaction with current household income is negative …, while the effect on satisfaction with leisure is positive. At the same time, the effect on health satisfaction is positive …