Chronic pain is associated with significant costs to individuals directly affected by this
condition, their families, the healthcare system, and the society as a whole. This paper …

Background Mobility limitation in older age reduces quality of life, generates substantial
health-and social-care costs, and increases mortality. Objective The REtirement in ACTion …

Using data from an Icelandic health-and-lifestyle survey carried out in 2007, 2009, and
2012, we employ a compensating income variation (CIV) approach to estimate the monetary …

The literature has shown strong associations between health, financial and social life events
and mental health. However, no studies as yet have looked at the temporal nature of the …

This paper investigates the relationship between negative changes in health and life
satisfaction, using a sample from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics of Australia …

Providing informal care can be both a burden and a source of satisfaction. To understand
the welfare effect on caregivers, we need an estimate of the 'shadow value'of informal care …

While the adverse health and economic consequences attributable to alcohol consumption
are widely acknowledged, its impact on psychological wellbeing is less well understood …

This study explores the association between life satisfaction and depression among patients
with cardiovascular diseases and whether this association is mediated by self-esteem. A …

We propose a nonparametric matching approach to estimation of implicit costs based on the
compensating variation (CV) principle. We apply the method to estimate the additional …

This paper investigates the relationship between partner's mental health and individual life
satisfaction, using panel data and calculating the monetary valuation of mental illness …