Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/52088 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5493
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new well-being valuation method. Yet there is currently no clear consensus on what the best measure of individual's experience may be for 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, while there is strong internal consistency of health impacts within each well-being measure, hugely different monetary valuations are obtained for the same health problem across different well-being measures. Our results, although should only viewed as illustrative, call for economists to rethink about which measure of well-being or experienced utility to be used in the well-being valuation method, should the approach ever be implemented in real policy contexts.
Subjects: 
well-being
compensation variations
monetary valuations
happiness
health
GHQ
JEL: 
H8
I18
I31
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
458.74 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.