experience and health. Our main result is that good health has a positive, sizable, and statistically significant effect on …

of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at … inconsistent relationship with happiness. National income moderates the effects of aging on self-reported health, and the decline … in health satisfaction and rise in disability with age are much stronger in poor countries than in rich countries. In …

I use microeconomic estimates of the effect of health on individual outcomes to construct macroeconomic estimates of … the proximate effect of health on GDP per capita. I employ avariety of methods to construct estimates of the return to … health, which I combine with cross-country and historical data on height, adult survival rates, and age at menarche. Using my …