Sympathy and the value of health: the spill-over effects of migraine on household well-being

In this paper a model of life satisfaction measurement is formulated to calculate happiness interdependencies. The model is applied to estimate the spill-over effects of migraine headache on well-being. It is found that women are more compassionate than men. The results also show that ignoring happiness interdependencies of migraine headache underestimates the effects of migraine headache on well-being. KEY WORDS: happiness interdependence, life-satisfaction, migraine, willingness to pay