in terms of richer concepts of individual well-being, such as subjective life satisfaction and equivalent incomes. Our …

.g., satisfaction with family life, leisure, income, work, health) and affective (e.g., happiness, anger, worry, sadness) components of … contrast to previous papers in the literature, according to which commuting is bad for overall life satisfaction, we find no … evidence that commuting in general is associated with a lower life satisfaction. Rather, it appears that longer commutes are …

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 …

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to …

health predicts higher happiness by 1.72 point or 0.82 of a standard deviation, more than four times the happiness difference … of changing employment status from unemployed to employed. Studying life satisfaction yields similar results. Health … improvements predict substantial increases in individual happiness. …

Using information on life satisfaction and crime from the European Social Survey, we apply the life satisfaction … reduce life satisfaction across Europe. Building upon these results, we quantify the monetary value of improvements in public … safety and its valuation in terms of individual well-being. The loss in satisfaction for victimized individuals corresponds …