goals, such as family life and health, and reduces well-being. There is need to devise policies that will yield better …

educational and health aspirations. Like earlier studies we find that income aspirations increase with both the individual’s own …Econometric analyses of European datasets suggest that income aspirations increase with current income. This finding is … consistent with the adaptation hypothesis - the notion that individual aspirations adjust to reflect personal circumstances and …

half decades (1990-2014). We considered three main pillars of welfare - health, income & consumption, education - and we …

half decades (1990-2014). We considered three main pillars of welfare - health, income & consumption, education - and we …

, family composition, health and religion over subjective well-being in the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay … American countries. Main obtained results show a positive correlation between higher levels of income and health,being married …

We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women … persistent negative implications on women's physical and mental health that is not just limited to the time of menstruation. …

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 …

Previous literature has identified income, poor health and social relationships as the most important predictors of … in SWB in mid-life. Explanations of the non-linear age-SWB relationship include the notion of unmet aspirations and the … income and social relationships vary with age in a wave-like fashion, while the negative marginal effect of poor health …

paper concludes by discussing possible implications for policy and health assessment methods. …