the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the … ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and …

- at any given actual weight - than those with low education. These results should be treated cautiously, and fixed …

the psychological health of our citizens? This paper reports the first large-scale longitudinal research into envy and its … measures of SF-36 mental health and psychological well-being, four main conclusions emerge.First, the young are especially … envy today is a powerful predictor of worse SF-36 mental health and well-being in the future. A change from the lowest to …

analyzing the effect of microcredit-enabled entrepreneurship on overall life satisfaction – a key manifestation of subjective … indirect negative effect on overall life satisfaction, through increased worry. On a positive note, we find that female micro …-borrowers experience an increase in satisfaction with financial security and achievement in life. We also provide evidence that micro …

This paper assesses the long-term subjective well-being and mental health toll of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 in the … causal long-term effect of the disaster on life satisfaction is established by exploiting variation in official radiation …

-2008 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System random sample of 1.3 million United States citizens. Life-satisfaction in each U …

satisfaction is negative just before the implementation and positive afterward. Last, I find evidence that smokers do not favor the …

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 …

collapses and movements in variables such as health and well-being. Using nationally-representative samples of older people … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about … recessions do not have widespread negative effects on health and well-being …