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Despite the increasing number of studies on self-reported happiness, due to data availability, only a few studies from … (temperature and rainfalls) on individual subjective well-being. We found that happiness is not associated with temperature, as … significantly associated with self-reported happiness. We found that the relationship is not linear, where higher rainfall is …
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the evolution of well-being changes due to, on one side, the changes in the weighting scheme and, on the other, changes in the indicators along the time. An alternative methodology is proposed in this paper that allows one to decompose a multidimensional index...
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Using the data covering the time period from 1996 till 2011, I estimate a spatial autoregressive model of wages' growth rates across Russian cities. I find that wages in Russian cities exhibit convergence. I also test whether city population (which is a proxy for city size) has positive impact...
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Happiness is an aspiration of every human being, and can also be a measure of social progress. Yet can one say that … understand - concepts such as urban quality of living, wellbeing and happiness is an urban planning major tool. But how does one … measure an abstract concept such as happiness and how does one eventually use this knowledge in to plan and build our cities …
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well-being (happiness) by size (population) of a place to find out when a place is too big. The answer is somewhere between …
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The rate of the elderly population increases rapidly throughout the world. The growth rate of the elderly population in the world is 2.1%, whereas the overall population growth rate is over 1.2 % (Mandiraoglu, 2010). The elderly population rate in the United States varies between 15% and 20 %....
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Most of the aggregate level analyses on the relationship between objective and subjective measures for well-being have limited themselves to measures of national GDP and mean life satisfaction. We develop this line of research by embedding the analysis into the context of 289 NUTS regions in...
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Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses …
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Evaluation of amenities and benefits of public service broadcasting is crucially important with the accelerated convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications and the increasing heterogeneities of media use by individuals. With the use of the microdata provided from a survey carried out by...
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