“…The agreement or disagreement with the following statements forms the basis of the LSI: (1) I have gotten more breaks in life than most of the people I know (compared to the elderly neighbors and relatives), (2) As I look back on my life, I am fairly well satisfied, (3) My life could be happier than it is now, (4) I would not change my past even if I could, (5) These are the best years of my life, (6) Most of the things I do are boring or monotonous, (7) I have always felt interested in the things I have done, (8) I expect some interesting and pleasant things to happen to me in the future, (9) I feel old and somewhat tired, and (10) I have gotten pretty much what I expected out of life. The LSI is widely used (albeit not by economists), and found to be highly correlated with other constructs to measure related but different concepts such as social loneliness, social isolation and willingness to live [22,23].…”