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monotonic decrease in illbeing by age. The reason for the change is the deterioration in young people's mental health both …
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, including investment in health capital. This paper begins to address this gap in knowledge using a large, longitudinal medical … MENA health and outcomes following official US policy and rhetoric is paramount for understanding the full consequences of …
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, although it fell slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which …
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Happiness data--survey respondents' self-reported well-being (SWB)--have become increasingly common in economics research, with recent calls to use them in policymaking. Researchers have used SWB data in novel ways, for example to learn about welfare or preferences when choice data are...
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Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...
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, approximately 500,000 individuals. It checks that the key results are not due to cohort effects. Nor do we rely on simple life-satisfaction … feelings, and extreme depression. We believe the seriousness of this societal problem has not been grasped by the affluent …
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threshold. Notably, retirement manifests significant gender heterogeneity in its influence on life satisfaction, leading to an … multiple dimensions of subjective well-being and objective health behaviors, laying bare gender disparities in health … behaviors, report enhanced self-perceived health, perceive higher relative income and social status, and exude greater …
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Recent research has documented a link between consumer risk preferences over health and the willingness to pay (WTP …) for medical technologies. However, the absence of empirical health risk preference estimates so far limits the … individual risk preference parameters over health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that shed light on health risk attitudes and …
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Prior to around 2011, there was a pronounced curvilinear relationship between age and wellbeing: poor mental health was … (ISSP) surveys for 2011 and 2021 and some country-specific data. Mental ill-health now declines in a roughly monotonic … fashion with age, whilst subjective well-being rises with age. We also show that young people with poorer mental health spend …
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Evidence on cannabis legalization's effects on mental health remains scarce, despite both rapid increases in cannabis … use and an ongoing mental health crisis in the United States. We use granular geographic data to estimate medical cannabis … dispensary availability's effects on self-reported mental health in New York state from 2011 through 2021 using a two …
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