health and social care. This project explored the opinions of a sample of UK decision-makers on the relevance of wellbeing … and subjective wellbeing (by which we mean good and bad feelings or overall evaluations of life, such as life satisfaction …) for resource allocation decisions within health and social care. Through these discussions we draw out the perceived …

physical handicaps. The analysis is based on an individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British … Household Panel Survey data set. This question provides a natural cardinalization of health utility .Our method is a refinement … of the method introduced by Cutler and Richardson (1997). We extend their approach in two directions. First, the health …

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 …

health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …

relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on the one hand and employment status and retirement, on the other, using … happier, experience less stress and anger, and have higher job satisfaction than other employees. Using statistical matching …

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … a) long-term panel data and estimation with individual fixed effects, b) regional GDP per capita with a higher variation … per capita and life satisfaction in either country (controlling for a variety of variables). Together with the evidence …