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Suicide kills more Americans each year than die in motor accidents. Yet its causes remain poorly understood. We suggest in this paper that the level of others’ happiness may be a risk factor for suicide (although one's own happiness likely protects one from suicide). Using U.S. and...
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This paper describes a dynamic system for the interrelationships between happiness and health that considers three main … empirical and theoretical studies to affect individual health and happiness are included (i.e., employment, occupation …-ante, and ex-post behavioural. I develop the model to rank the three attitudes in terms of health for a given happiness level …
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improvements in children's health; in El Salvador, slum dwellers also feel that they are safer. We do not find this result, however …
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improvements in children’s health; in El Salvador, slum dwellers also feel that they are safer. We do not find this result, however …
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economic good or bad, and hence serves as a prime example of irrational behavior reducing individual health and happiness …. Contrary to previous research, we find no health impact when TV consumption increases. For life satisfaction, we even find …
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, self-reported health, and presence of chronic illness as health measures. After controlling for initial health conditions …
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between population, education, health and social divergence and productivity. In the fourth section, three papers address the …
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between agricultural and non-agricultural workers. In both countries health is a major factor contributing to happiness. Our … study implies that adequate provision of national health care services should be an effective way to improve social welfare …
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Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new … the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue, monetary values for a number of health problems are compared across … different well-being measures within the same UK data set. We find that, whilst there is strong internal consistency of health …
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