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Well-being of older people in East Asia : the People's Republic of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea
Ichimura, Hidehiko; Lei, Xiaoyan; Lee, Chulhee; Lee, Jinkook - 2024
East Asia is undergoing a rapid demographic transition and "super" aging. As a result of steadily decreasing fertility and increasing life expectancy, older people's proportion of the population and the old-age dependency ratio is rising across all countries in East Asia, particularly in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015076365
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Female suicide and the concept of the midlife crisis
Oswald, Andrew J.; Tohamy, Ahmed - 2017
-being literature and a matching hill-shape in especially female suicide risk (evident in 28 countries and visible in the United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647669
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Income comparisons, income adaptation, and life satisfaction : how robust are estimates from survey data?
Pfaff, Tobias - 2013 - This version: May, 2013
variations in the underlying income type substantially affect tests of the relationship between life satisfaction, income rank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009747812
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Income comparisons, income adaptation, and life satisfaction : how robust are estimates from survey data?
Pfaff, Tobias - 2013
variations in the underlying income type substantially affect tests of the relationship between life satisfaction, income rank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009759751
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Predicting the trend of well-being in Germany : how much do comparisons, adaptation and sociability matter?
Bartolini, Stefano; Bilancini, Ennio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2011
large loss of satisfaction experienced by individuals in old age. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009389112
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Money, social capital and materialism : evidence from happiness data
Piekalkiewicz, Marcin - 2016
Are unhappiness, high concern for money and scarcity of social capital different faces of the same phenomenon? Economists tend to treat these variables as distinct correlates of well-being. On the contrary, positive psychologists argue that they all relate to materialism, a system of personal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454490
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The happiness : suicide paradox
Daly, Mary C.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Wilson, Daniel J.; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008698331
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Well-Being and Social Capital : Does Suicide Pose a Puzzle?
Helliwell, John F. - 2021
correlation between national average suicide rates and measures of life satisfaction. Thus social capital does appear to improve … well-being, whether measured by higher average values of life satisfaction or by lower average suicide rates. There is a … variables that have more weight in explaining life satisfaction than suicide (trust and quality of government), and less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233897
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Well-Being and Social Capital : Does Suicide Pose a Puzzle?
Helliwell, John F. - 2004
correlation between national average suicide rates and measures of life satisfaction. Thus social capital does appear to improve … well-being, whether measured by higher average values of life satisfaction or by lower average suicide rates. There is a … variables that have more weight in explaining life satisfaction than suicide (trust and quality of government), and less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467791
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Happy pills? : mental health effects of the dramatic increase of antidepressant use
Masiero, Giuliano; Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Steinbach, Sandro - 2020
Despite the growing skepticism regarding the efficacy of antidepressants, global consumption has increased at an unprecedented rate with unknown implications for society. We estimate the causal effect of this increase on mental health outcomes using an instrumental variable strategy that...
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