ISQOLS Webinar, "The Wellbeing Loss of Health Inequality", by Dr. Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell

Explore how health inequality affects subjective well-being and quality of life in this ISQOLS webinar, *“The Wellbeing Loss of Health Inequality,”* presented by **Dr. Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell**. Dr. Ferrer-i-Carbonell examines how unequal health outcomes translate into differences in life satisfaction, happiness, and broader well-being. Drawing on advances in subjective well-being measurement, this webinar discusses methods for estimating the “wellbeing loss” associated with health disparities and highlights how wellbeing-based approaches can inform public policy and inequality reduction. *About the Presenter:* Dr. Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell is an economist and researcher at the Institute for Economic Analysis and an affiliated professor at the Barcelona School of Economics. She is coordinator of the Global Society area, and her research focuses on the measurement and analysis of well-being through subjective questions on satisfaction, with applications to economic outcomes such as health, development, and inequality. *Chapters:* 00:00 Welcome and introduction 01:08 Presentation begins 01:43 Measuring the wellbeing loss of health inequality 02:32 Why health inequality matters for policy 05:08 Why people care about inequality 10:11 Health, income, and inequality 14:20 Research contribution and data 18:14 Measuring health inequality 25:07 German SOEP data and regional variation 29:55 Methodology and model 35:03 Individual-level results 36:07 Regional-level analysis 39:49 Main findings 41:51 Robustness checks 45:03 Summary and conclusions 47:21 Q&A begins 47:32 Policy implications 51:03 Health comparisons and individual-level data 54:12 Mediation effects and income inequality 58:11 Universal healthcare and U.S. comparisons 1:00:40 Closing remarks 📅 Recorded: Monday, May 18 🕙 10:00 AM EST / 4:00 PM CET 🎤 Presenter: Dr. Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell 🌐 Hosted by the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) Learn more about ISQOLS: [https://isqols.org](https://isqols.org) #ISQOLS #Wellbeing #QualityOfLife #HealthInequality #LifeSatisfaction #SubjectiveWellbeing #HappinessResearch #PublicPolicy #SocialInequality #WellbeingResearch