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Many empirical studies are ambiguous about whether good formal institutions are conducive to subjective well-being or not. Possibly, this ambiguity is caused by cross-section models that do not account for unobserved cultural and institutional effects. Using the World Value Survey 1980-2005,...
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This article aims to compare women in the MENA region with women in Europe as to how globalization affects their conservative values and attitudes, and, thereby, their labor market participation. The authors define conservative values as both religious values and socio-political attitudes...
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well-being’, ‘affect’, ‘life satisfaction’, and ‘happiness’. It describes their measurements and operationalizations in …Happiness research is on the rise, but is confounded by competing definitions of subjective well-being based on co …
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Previous happiness research has explicitly assumed that subjective well-being is U-shaped in age. This paper sheds new … life satisfaction reaches another local maximum around the age of 83, with a level identical to that of a 26-years old …
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In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the … social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …
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In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the …
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In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557081
performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited, and … inconclusive. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association …. Our findings suggest that their conclusions are qualitatively rather insensitive to the specific measure of ‘happiness …
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performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited, and … inconclusive. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association … measure of ‘happiness’ used, while the associations between institutions and subjective well-being differ among poor and rich …
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Values Survey, this study shows that living in a socially mobile society is conducive to individual life satisfaction …
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