This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the …

This paper assesses the long-term subjective well-being and mental health toll of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 in the …

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 …

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 …

Though there is clinical evidence linking pollution induced inflammatory factors and major depression and suicide, no … relationship between air pollution and suicide in the United States. Using detailed cause of death data from all death certificates … NASA satellite data, and suicide rates. Using wind direction as an instrument for reducing potentially endogeneity and …

suicide rates. Our results suggest that the passage of a medical marijuana law is associated with an almost 5 percent … reduction in the total suicide rate, an 11 percent reduction in the suicide rate of 20- through 29-year-old males, and a 9 … percent reduction in the suicide rate of 30- through 39-year-old males. Estimates of the relationship between legalization and …

the underdeveloped literature on the determinants of worker happiness while at work, positing the structure of work as an …

There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for 'children' who have … grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness … from parents to children is partly due to transmission of values and behaviors known to be associated with happiness …

stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for individual welfare. In our review, we intend to provide an evaluation … of where the economic research on happiness stands and of three directions it might develop. First, it offers new ways …