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Winning big but feeling no better? : the effect of lottery prizes on physical and mental health
Apouey, Benedicte; Clark, Andrew E. - 2009
We use British panel data to explore the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general … positive income shocks have no significant effect on general health, but a large positive effect on mental health. This result …, general health should partly reflect mental health, so that we may expect both variables to move in the same direction. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824515
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Gender, loneliness and happiness during COVID-19
Lepinteur, Anthony; Clark, Andrew E.; … - 2022
We analyse a measure of loneliness from a representative sample of German individuals interviewed in both 2017 and at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Both men and women felt lonelier during the COVID-19 pandemic than they did in 2017. The pandemic more than doubled the gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013546659
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Early-life correlates of later-life well-being : evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
Clark, Andrew E.; Lee, Tom - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011697117
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Happiness, habits and high rank: Comparisons in economic and social life
Clark, Andrew E. - 2012
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286974
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Early maternal employment and non-cognitive outcomes in early childhood and adolescence : evidence from British birth cohort data
Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Clark, Andrew E. - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011671554
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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
Clark, Andrew E. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784010