associations, together with the ability of subjective wellbeing (SWB) metrics to predict health and behavioral outcomes, have … from the Health Survey for England (HSE) and Scottish Health Surveys (SHeS) we show that its correlates are similar in a … number of ways to those for SWB, and that it is highly correlated with SWB metrics, as well as self-assessed health. Second …

On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often …

focus of analysis beyond traditional health outcomes to include measures of human capital, including labor supply … importance of health and human capital as an engine for economic growth, these findings underscore the role of environmental …

In this paper, we characterize the multi-faceted health of the elderly and understand how health along multiple … of health can be combined into three broad categories: a first dimension representing severe physical and social … improvement in health is not due to differential mortality of the sick or a new generation of more healthy people entering old age …

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 …

international trade in manufactured goods. These include: 1. Indexes of export prices for the U.S., Germany, and Japan, based on … of domestic prices for the U. S., Germany, and Japan based on export weights; 3. Indexes for developed country exports of … exports of manufactures, and indexes for exports of the U.S., Germany, and Japan on the sane sets of weights. The indexes for …

using vector autoregressive methods for the U.S. dollar, Deutsche mark, and British pound interest rates and exchange rates … sample distributions of the different tests leads to a common interpretation of the validity of the Expectations Hypotheses …