This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a random …. Greater income does not buy more sex, nor more sexual partners. The typical American has sexual intercourse 2-3 times a month …

of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at … national income; each doubling of income is associated with a near one point increase in life satisfaction on a scale from 0 to … inconsistent relationship with happiness. National income moderates the effects of aging on self-reported health, and the decline …

county, as well as improvements in self-reported mental and physical health. We further find that this reduction in suicide …

of everyone else. According to the income comparisons model, this change in transparency can widen the gap in well … it increased the life satisfaction gap by 21%. We provide suggestive evidence that some, although probably not all, of … this effect relates to changes in self-perceptions of relative income. We provide back-of-the-envelope estimates of the …

We study "habituation" to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people living in … Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a "happiness equation" defined over several lags of income and status and … compare the long run effects. We can (cannot) reject the hypothesis of no adaptation to income (status) during the four years …

well as on their wealth, health, and life satisfaction. Event study analysis suggests that boomerang children return home … there any evidence that they affect parents' wealth, health, or life satisfaction … "boomerang" back home impact their parents in their pre-retirement and post-retirement years. We use data from the Health and …

behaviors, report enhanced self-perceived health, perceive higher relative income and social status, and exude greater … 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 …

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 …

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 …

-reported happiness and life satisfaction. I find robust evidence that high inflation and, to a greater extent, unemployment lower …