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Happiness and Productivity
Oswald, Andrew J.; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The paper provides evidence that happiness raises productivity. In Experiment 1, a randomized trial is designed. Some subjects have their happiness levels increased, while those in a control group do not. Treated subjects have 12% greater productivity in a paid piece-rate Niederle-Vesterlund...
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Are Happiness and Productivity Lower among University Students with Newly-Divorced Parents? An Experimental Approach
Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent divorce. It is likely that parents themselves worry about effects on their children. Yet there has been almost no formal research into the important issue of how recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522418
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Risk Attitudes and Well-Being in Latin America
Cardenas, Juan Camilo; Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
literature, however, suggests that this assumption is far from proven. We report on field experiments designed to address many of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683657
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The Emotional Timeline of Unemployment: Anticipation, Reaction, and Adaptation
von Scheve, Christian; Esche, Frederike; Schupp, Jürgen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although many studies have documented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700363
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Community Effects on Elderly Health: Evidence from CHARLS National Baseline
Smith, James P.; Tian, Meng; Zhao, Yaohui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
There is increasing interest in neighborhood or area effects on health and individual development. China, due to its … vast regional variations in health infrastructure and geography and relative immobility of older residents, provides a rare … opportunity to study such effects. Utilizing China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) baseline survey 2011 …
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Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hukou System
Afridi, Farzana; Li, Sherry Xin; Ren, Yufei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
identity on individuals' intrinsic response to incentives, and consequently on widening income inequality. …
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Urban-Rural Disparities of Child Health and Nutritional Status in China from 1989 to 2006
Liu, Hong; Fang, Hai; Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural … period 1989-2006. We also find that the urban–rural health and nutritional disparities have been declining significantly from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279294
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Urban Working-Class Food Consumption and Nutrition in Britain in 1904
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This article re-examines the food consumption of working class households in 1904 and compares the nutritional content of these diets with modern measures of adequacy. We find a fairly steep gradient of nutritional attainment relative to economic class, with high levels of vitamin and mineral...
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Human Well-being and In-Work Benefits: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Dorsett, Richard; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Many politicians believe they can intervene in the economy to improve people's lives. But can they? In a social experiment carried out in the United Kingdom, extensive in-work support was randomly assigned among 16,000 disadvantaged people. We follow a sub-sample of 3,500 single parents for 5...
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Resilience to Economic Shocks and the Long Reach of Childhood Bullying
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
,000 children into adulthood, we show that the negative effect of unemployment on mental health and life satisfaction is almost four …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010585695