We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end … selfemployment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure … (i.e., switching from self-employment to unemployment) are substantial and exceed the costs of involuntarily losing a …

interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which …