This paper investigates the role of relative comparisons in health status for individual health satisfaction. Previous … population survey, we estimate empirical health satisfaction models that take these interrelations into account. We find that … illness on health satisfaction. This is also the first study to show the relevance of health-related upward and downward …

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 …

satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income … equivalent of health changes. Next, the health satisfaction changes are linked to specific diseases in order to estimate the … income equivalent for various diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as posed in …

satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income … equivalent of health changes. Next, the health satisfaction changes are linked to specific diseases in order to estimate the … income equivalent for various diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as posed in …

threshold. Notably, retirement manifests significant gender heterogeneity in its influence on life satisfaction, leading to an … multiple dimensions of subjective well-being and objective health behaviors, laying bare gender disparities in health … behaviors, report enhanced self-perceived health, perceive higher relative income and social status, and exude greater …

satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income … equivalent of health changes. Next, the health satisfaction changes are linked to specific diseases in order to estimate the … income equivalent for various diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as posed in …

expectations over two time periods. Life satisfaction is used as a proxy for mental well-being. To identify a causal effect of …

expectations over two time periods. Life satisfaction is used as a proxy for mental well-being. To identify a causal effect of …

, self-reported health, and presence of chronic illness as health measures. After controlling for initial health conditions …

expectations over two time periods. Life satisfaction is used as a proxy for mental well-being. To identify a causal effect of …