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advantages of taller workers, including psycho-social dimensions. We also find a height premium in happiness, half of which …
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, from a Humean point of view, of a welfare policy which would aim at promoting the highest individual happiness whereas … individual decisions, like individual happiness, are determined not only by allocations of goods, but also by an emotional state …
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positively correlated with well-being. Yet the famous Easterlin paradox shows essentially no change in average happiness at the …
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This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower...
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This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of similar affluence …. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to disentangle …-negligible importance in explaining international heterogeneity in happiness. In some countries, such as France, they are responsible for …
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This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that the time trend in average happiness is flat during episodes of long …-run income growth. This mean-preserving declining spread in happiness comes about via falls in both the share of individuals who …
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In this paper, we investigate the effect of a change in childcare subsidies on parental subjective well-being. Starting in 1997, the Canadian province of Québec implemented a generous program providing $5-a-day childcare to children under the age of 5. By 2007, the percentage of children...
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In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … contributed to this greater happiness homogeneity. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, offering …
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Les Français se déclarent moins heureux que la plupart des Européens. Yann Algan et Pierre Cahuc (2007) ont suggéré que cette insatisfaction prenait sa source dans l'absence de confiance qu'ils s'accordent les uns aux autres, ainsi qu'aux institutions de leur pays. Sans vouloir exclure...
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This article is concerned with a body of work on happiness and age represented by important papers such as Mroczek and …
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