better understand the transmission of early life circumstances, this paper analyses the effects of health and financial … situation during childhood on quality of life after retirement as well as the mediating role of later life health, educational …. The analyses are based on data of 13,092 retirees aged > 60 and < 85 years from the fifth wave of the Survey of Health …

income, relative income (i.e. how individual income compares to those of peers), individual health, and relative health … contribute to these inequalities. The analysis focuses on the population aged 50 and over, using data from the ‘Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe’ and the ‘Health and Retirement Study’ for the US. All countries display some socioeconomic …

HDI calculation method nor the decomposition of the HDI into its education, standard of living and health sub-indices. …

with twelve concrete health impairments. Specifically, we analyze whether subjective well-being predicts longer survival in … decrease survival in our sample, even controlling for the severity of health problems. But our results cast doubt on strong … significant interactions between substantive health impairments and life satisfaction. Higher subjective well-being may keep you …

life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …