relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …

and regions in the factors linked to life satisfaction, paying special attention to the social context. Our principal … findings are: First, using the larger pooled sample, we find that answers to the satisfaction with life and Cantril ladder … international and intra-national differences in life satisfaction. Third, the very significant influences of both income and social …

was an excellent predictor of older age mortality from ischemic heart disease or stroke. Changes in frame size explain … roughly three-fifths of the mortality decline among white men between 1915 and 1988 and predict even sharper declines in older … age mortality between 1988 and 2022 …

The Antebellum Puzzle' describes the situation of declining stature and pos mortality in the three decades prior to the … the mortality environment a have worsened (or at least did not improve), connected with factors such as urba …, mortality was not improving in the antebellum period and was deterio York City. For the United States and for New York State …

living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved …

assumptions of full annuitization and deterministic health. Our framework can value the prevention of mortality and of illness …We develop a new framework for valuing health and longevity improvements that departs from conventional but unrealistic … consumers value life-extension more in bleaker health states. Third, retirement annuities boost aggregate demand for life …

Using the widely-cited Lee-Carter mortality model, we quantify aggregate mortality risk as the risk that the average … substantial mortality risk. We calculate that a markup of 3.7% on an annuity premium (or else shareholders%u2019 capital equal to … underpriced. Insurance companies could deal with aggregate mortality risk by transferring it to financial markets through …

mortality risk, and one with consumers who are misguided about their life expectancy, and find that our data are most consistent … test whether consumers make systematic mistakes in perceiving their mortality risks. We implement this test using data from …

In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data … consumption. Measures of overall and sub-group poverty also sharply differ. In addition to examining broader populations and a …