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The Easterlin Paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020
The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … vitiates the otherwise positive effect of own-income growth on happiness. Critics of the Paradox mistakenly present the …
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Unemployment and subjective well-being
Suppa, Nicolai - 2021
This chapter summarizes the latest state of the art in economic research on unemployment and subjective well-being. Outcomes covered are general life satisfaction, affective well-being, and mental health. Special attention is paid to empirical evidence as obtained from popular panel data sets....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417634
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Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people to be unhappy? : evidence from a six-country survey
Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2021
Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people unhappy? In this study, we use a recent survey from China, Japan, South Korea, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States to explore this question. We find a relatively large effect: a one per-mille point increase in the incidence of the COVID-19...
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Racial diversity, immigrants and the well-being of residents : evidence from U.S. counties
Kuroki, Masanori - 2017
This paper presents empirical evidence that racial diversity and immigrant population at the local level tend to be associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the period 2005-2010. The magnitudes I find suggest that...
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The mental health effects of retirement
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019
We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects are heterogeneous by gender and marital status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140023
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"More children, more happiness?" : new evidence from elderly parents in China
Gao, Yanyan; Qu, Zhaopeng - 2019 - This version: July 2019
In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of 'more children, more happiness' by exploiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152172
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The effect of immigration on natives' well-being in the European Union
O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2019 - Version: May 24, 2019
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Europe today, yet little is known about the overall effect of its multiple impacts. The analysis suggests natives need not worry. Increasing immigrant population shares have no statistically significant effects on natives' well-being in 28...
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A year of pandemic : levels, changes and validity of well-being data from Twitter : evidence from ten countries
Sarracino, Francesco; Greyling, Talita; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021
National Happiness (GNH), a country-level index built applying sentiment analysis to data from Twitter. Our aim is to describe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012506627
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Vaccination uptake, happiness and emotions : using a supervised machine learning approach
Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanié - 2024
vaccination rates. Secondly, we consider if subjective measures, including the level of happiness and different collective … Hemisphere and variables related to COVID-19, vaccines, country characteristics and the level of happiness and collective …, the average temperature, and the happiness levels within countries. It is remarkable how the importance of subjective …
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Is immigration good for Europe? : long-run evidence using comprehensive well-being
O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2024
The immigrant (foreign-born) population increased by 32 million in total across 37 European countries from 1990 to 2019. Much of this movement was from east to west. Indeed, both the total and foreign-born populations declined in the former Eastern Bloc over this period. Such demographic shifts...
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