Adverse health conditions have the potential to financially cripple American households. This report reviews the large literature that considers the ways in which health-both physical and mental-impacts household finances. The review largely includes studies with U.S. populations and spans many...

Between 2000 and 2008, access to high-speed, broadband internet grew significantly in the United States, but there is debate on whether access to high-speed internet improves or harms wellbeing. We find that a ten percent increase in the proportion of county residents with access to broadband...

Study design and methods / Paul P. Biemer, Kathryn Dowd, and Mary Bruce Webb -- Quality of the early caregiving environment and preschool well-being : an examination of children entering the child welfare system during infancy / Brenda Jones Harden ... [et al.] -- Risk and resilience among...

Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and...

Governments are becoming interested in the concept of human well-being and how truly to assess it. As an alternative to traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information on citizens' happiness, life satisfaction, and other psychological scores. Yet how could such data...

Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and...