: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of …

We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset … modelling, we find that happiness is strongly correlated with perceived good health, after controlling for a number of relevant … socio-economic phenomena. Health inequalities based on income, work status and education are relatively contained in respect …

characteristics that can be affected by policy. Districts with better health care and infrastructure, such as road and health services …

data from Demographic and Health Surveys in rural Mali, where polygyny rates among married women are close to 50 per cent …

We survey the Happiness and Economics field to systematize the explanations of the happiness gender gap, whose puzzling … edge medical technologies) lead in the static (time-invariant) explanation of happiness and its gender gap, while economic …, the Happiness and Economics field has provided original evidence on the country and time variant nature of the happiness …

Happiness is rising on the political agenda and this calls for measures of how well nations perform in creating great … happiness for a great number, analogous to measures of success in creating wealth, such as GDP. Happiness is defined as … subjective enjoyment of one’s life as-a-whole and this can be measured using self-reports. Question on happiness are currently …

Indigenous groups account for over one tenth of Mexico’s population and many of them suffer from constant social …

This paper examines the effect of child labour on child health outcomes in Bangladesh. We use self-reported injury or … illness due to work as a general measure of health status. Using the Bangladesh National Child Labour Survey data for 2002 … subjective health across age groups, we find that health disadvantages for different age groups are not essentially parallel. …

paper also addresses the channels through which the conflict has affected health and nutrition. The results have not only …