What Is the Value of (My and My Family's) Good Health?

This paper uses several waves of the General Social Survey (GSS) including data for up to about 32,000 individuals to estimate the effect of a variety of health conditions on happiness. We show that healthy people are in general happier than individuals with poor health, controlling for a number of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: de Mello, Luiz, Tiongson, Erwin R.
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5595