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Economic Comparison and Group Identity: Lessons from India

Fontaine, Xavier; Yamada, Katsunori - HAL - 2012

The caste issue dominates a large part of India's social and political life. Caste shapes one's identity. Furthermore, strong tensions exist between castes. Using subjective well-being data, we assess the role economic comparisons play in this society. We focus on both within and between-castes...

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Do Higher Childcare Subsidies Improve Parental Well-being? Evidence from Québec's Family Policies

Brodeur, Abel; Connolly, Marie - HAL - 2012

and negative effects for middle household income families. We find similar negative effects on life satisfaction for both … men and women, but different effects on satisfaction with work-life balance. This suggests that fathers' life satisfaction …

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Do Higher Childcare Subsidies Improve Parental Well-being? Evidence from Québec's Family Policies

Brodeur, Abel; Connolly, Marie - HAL - 2012

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Who compares to whom? The anatomy of income comparisons in Europe

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2009

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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Direct evidence on income comparisons and their welfare effects

Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2008

always has a greater welfare effect than out-performing it (in absolute value). Comparisons which reduce satisfaction also …

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Ambition and jealousy. Income interactions in the "Old" Europe versus the "New" Europe and the United States

Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2007

Using individual-level data from a large number of countries, this paper examines how self-reported subjective well-being depends on own income and reference income, where reference income is defined as the income of professional peers. It uncovers a divide between "old" -low mobility- European...

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The French Unhappiness Puzzle: the Cultural Dimension of Happiness

Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2013

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 the influence of objective circumstances versus...

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Will GDP growth increase happiness in developing countries?

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2010

-visible through the lens of subjective satisfaction measures. The case of Transition countries is particularly impressive in this … respect: average life satisfaction scores closely mirror changes in GDP for about the first ten years of the transition …

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Happy house: Spousal weight and individual well-being

Clark, Andrew E.; Etilé, Fabrice - HAL - 2010

We use life satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI) information from three waves of the GSOEP to test for social … correlated with own satisfaction. Own BMI is positively correlated with satisfaction in thin men, and negatively correlated with … satisfaction after some threshold. Critically, this latter threshold increases with partner's BMI when the individual is overweight …

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Smoking, Income and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Smoking Bans

Brodeur, Abel - HAL - 2012

This paper provides estimates of the effects of smoking policies on self-reported well-being using US county-level data. Because the bans were implemented at different times, it is possible to exploit these variations to identify the effect on a broad range of outcomes like self-reported...

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