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In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts … citizens have downwardly trended happiness levels. There is, however, one bright side to an otherwise dark story. The happiness …
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the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index. The state level …
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A historically high level of youth unemployment presents Greece with a huge social and economic challenge. This paper analyses various dimensions of this challenge. We argue that though the conventional definition of "youth" is the 16-24 age group, there is a strong case for considering 25 to...
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happiness, considers implications for policymakers, and explores where Australia lies in international subjective well …, where a common language should help subjective measures to be reliable, Australia performs poorly on a range of happiness …
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If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...
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We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this …
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paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely be … replaced by the U-index. I find that first, that there are many similarities. According to both measures happiness is higher … happiness that is unavailable on the U-index. For example, according to happiness research well-being across nations is lower …
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On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The self-assessed wellbeing of Scots is lower than that of...
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