satisfaction with their actual life satisfaction five years later on. This overoptimism also holds for those entrepreneurs who … reflected in higher working hours than desired and the drop in leisure satisfaction. …

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 …

British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health …If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by … implications for educational policy. Among adult circumstances, family income accounts for only 0.5% of the variance of life-satisfaction …

longitudinal evidence that a drop in life satisfaction tends to precede the use of illegal/street drugs. We also find that the … current levels of life satisfaction. This provides empirical support for the utility misprediction model. Further, we find … that the decrease in life satisfaction following the consumption of illegal/street drugs persists 6 months to a year after …