Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new … may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue, monetary values for a number of health problems are … consistency of health impacts within each well-being measure, hugely different monetary valuations are obtained for the same …

-being distribution has decreased over time. Moreover, health as well as life satisfaction contribute quite substantially to … German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for … nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported satisfaction with life as dimensions. We find that one third of the German …

We examine how health information affects individuals' subjective well-being using a regression discontinuity design on … health (negative). …

traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information on citizens' happiness, life satisfaction, and other …