While there is mounting evidence that large income shocks, e.g. in the form of a job loss, may impact health and … income constant, and health. This paper exploits rich survey data on the near-elderly in Canada paired with their … administrative tax records to investigate whether a relationship exists between health and well-being on the one hand, and individual …

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 …

This paper investigates the relationship between partner's mental health and individual life satisfaction, using a …'s mental health and to calculate the Compensating Income Variation (CIV) of them. To the best of our knowledge, this is the … first paper to study the effect of partner's mental health on individual's wellbeing and to measure the impact of reduced …

health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general …This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income …

, experiencing long-term health problems, being bullied at school and being beaten or punched as a child all have long-term impacts … aspects of everyday life, happiness and life satisfaction, self-assessed health, and are positively linked to measures of …

In general, the happiness literature has paid little attention to the relationship between physical appearance and well …

. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we consider both relative and absolute … movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is a significant predictor of life satisfaction and mental health …, whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a consistent predictor of SWB and mental health …

This paper contributes to the small but growing literature evaluating the health effects of the Earned Income Tax … federal EITC expansion on several outcomes related to mental health and subjective well-being. The identification strategy … suggest that the 1990 EITC reform generated sizeable health benefits for low-skilled mothers. Such women experienced lower …

health days for nearby residents. Horizontal drilling has statistically significant deleterious effects on well-being, but …