health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in … subjective well-being, higher depression rates and lower subjective survival probabilities; they rely more on governmental …

health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in … subjective well-being, higher depression rates and lower subjective survival probabilities; they rely more on governmental …

the Chernobyl disaster on the health and labour market performance of the adult workforce. The variation in the local area … level of radiation fallout from the Chernobyl accident is considered as a potential instrument to try to establish the … causal impact of poor health on labour force participation, hours worked and wages. There appears to be a significant …

This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends … within one year. This leads to the conclusion that the information content of satisfaction scores accentuates recent changes …-term impact on living conditions. The usefulness of satisfaction scores as an indicator of people's living conditions is discussed. …

that changes in hand grip strength and overall life satisfaction capture two different aspects of health status and its …Self-reported measures of health are generally treated as weak measures of respondents' objective health status. On the … other hand, most surveys use self-reported health to measure health status and to determine the effects of a range of other …

attitudes to focus less on objective variables and more on subjective well-being (SWB). Studies investigating life satisfaction … (as a proxy of SWB) have identified strong relations with income, labour market status and health state. In this … literature review we try to be acquainted with and analyse the dynamic effect of income, health state (ill-being) and labour …

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 …

Lebensumstände in Österreichs Städten. Dabei umfasst sie folgende Bereiche: a) Ausbildung und Erziehung, b) Gesundheit, c) Wohnen, d …. Sie bieten hochwertige Jobs und wichtige Leistungen der Daseinsvorsorge in den Bereichen Bildung, Gesundheit, Wohnen und … conditions in Austrian cities. It covers the following areas: a) education and upbringing, b) health, c) housing, d) public …

Using life satisfaction as a direct measure of individual utility has become popular in the empirical economic … satisfaction a volatile concept that is affected by minor changes in life circumstances? Or is it a reliable measure of personal … happiness? This paper will analyze the impact of a catastrophe, namely the nuclear catastrophe of Chernobyl, on life …