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The Challenges of Incorporating Empowerment into the HDI: Some Lessons from Happiness Economics and Quality of Life Research

Graham, Carol - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

happiness surveys to study well being in its various dimensions, ranging from well being within persons, to the determinants of … poor to make choices or to take certain actions. Happiness surveys are a means to assess the well being of individuals who … quality of life, based on extensive work with happiness surveys in Latin America, and how that accumulated knowledge can …

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Income inequality and well-being in the U.S. : evidence of geographic-scale- and measure-dependence

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Graham, Carol - 2016

U.S. income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades. Researchers consistently find that greater income inequality measured at the state or national level is associated with diminished subjective well-being (SWB) in the U.S. We conduct the first multi-scale analysis (i.e., at the...

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Local neighbors as positives, regional neighbors as negatives : competing channels in the relationship between others' income, health, and happiness

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa; Graham, Carol - 2016

We develop a theoretical framework that considers four distinct explanatory channels through which neighbors' income could affect utility: public goods, cost of living, expectations of future income, and the direct effect (relative income hypothesis (RIH) and altruism). The relationship is...

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Unhappiness and pain in modern America : a review essay, and further evidence, on Carol Graham's happiness for all?

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017

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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Unhappiness and pain in modern America : a review essay, and further evidence, on Carol Graham' s Happiness for all?

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017

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Emigration, remittances and the subjective well-being of those staying behind

Ivlevs, Artjoms; Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - 2018

Despite growing academic and policy interest in the subjective well-being consequences of emigration for those left behind, existing studies have focused on single origin countries or specific world regions. Our study is the first to offer a global perspective on the well-being consequences of...

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Happiness and age : resolving the debate

Blanchflower, David G.; Graham, Carol; Piper, Alan T. - In: National Institute economic review : journal of the … 263 (2023), pp. 76-93

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Valuing Health Conditions - Insights from Happiness Surveys across Countries and Cultures

Graham, Carol; Higuera, Lucas; Lora, Eduardo - 2009

This paper assesses the effects of different health conditions on happiness. Based on a large data set for Latin …. The negative effects of health conditions are very large when compared to the effects of income on happiness. While higher …

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Valuing health conditions : insights from happiness surveys across countries and cultures

Graham, Carol; Higuera, Lucas; Lora, Eduardo - 2009

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Employment, late-life work, retirement, and well-being in Europe and the United States

Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 5, pp. 1-30

Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and underemployment, aging populations, and unsustainable public pension systems in welfare states around the world. We examine the relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on...

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