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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....

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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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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...

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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 …

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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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New Zealand's happiness and COVID-19 : a Markov Switching Dynamic Regression Model

Rossouw, Stephanie; Greyling, Talita; Adhikari, Tamanna - 2021

Happiness levels (states) are volatile and often fluctuate between a happy and unhappy state from one day to the next … Regression Model (MSDR) to better understand the dynamic patterns of happiness levels before and during a pandemic. The estimated … unique insights into the evolution of happiness. Furthermore, as maximising happiness is a policy priority, we determine the …

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The well-being age U-shape effect in Germany is not flat

Blanchflower, David G.; Piper, Alan T. - 2021

Kassenboehmer and DeNew (2012) claim that there is no well-being age U-shape effect for Germany, when controlling for fixed effects and respondent experience and interviewer characteristics in the German Socio-Economic Panel, 1994-2006. We re-estimate with a longer run of years and restrict the...

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Do gender, child, and parent characteristics contribute to intergenerational subjective well-being mobility? : evidence from Russia during 1994-2019

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022

Measuring the intergenerational mobility of welfare provides key inputs for policies, but very few studies examine intergenerational mobility of subjective well-being (SWB), particularly in a poorer, transitional country context. We make new contributions by analyzing rich panel SWB data from...

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Self-employment and subjective well-being

Binder, Martin; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin - 2021

Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many individuals want to become self-employed due to the autonomy and exibility it brings. Using "subjective well-being" as a broad summary measure that evaluates an individual's experience of being self-employed, the...

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