Bad health can severely disrupt a person's life. We apply matching estimators to examine how changes in subjective … health status as well as different (objective) conditions of bad health affect subjective well-being. The strongest effect is … cancer. We also take into account differences in "Big Five" personality traits. Adaptation to health impairments depends …

health are observed alongside weak increases in well-being after health improvements. -- health ; illness ; happiness …Bad health can severely disrupt a person's life. We apply matching estimators to examine how changes in subjective … health status as well as different (objective) conditions of bad health affect subjective well-being. The strongest effect is …

this paper we assess for the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data set from 1991-2008 how life satisfaction interacts … 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 …

individual-specific fixed effects (using the BHPS data set). It finds declining effects of the four main variables of interest … (health, social life, income, education) over the quantiles of the subjective well-being distribution, with attenuated effect …

Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia … survey (waves 2001-2014), we construct measures of unexpected health shocks for each year, using information on respondents …

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

We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i … physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are largely …

We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i … physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are largely …