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Parents Transmit Happiness along with Associated Values and Behaviors to Their Children: A Lifelong Happiness Dividend?
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wagner, Gert G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for 'children' who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness from parents to children is partly due to transmission of...
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China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010
Easterlin, Richard A.; Morgan, Robson; Switek, Malgorzata; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life satisfaction trajectory of the central and eastern European transition countries – a U-shaped swing and a nil or declining trend. There is no evidence of an increase in life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814474
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Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence
Easterlin, Richard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are positively associated. Evidence for this is found in time series data for developed countries, transition countries, and less developed countries, whether analyzed separately or pooled....
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Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy
Easterlin, Richard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
If society's goal is to increase people's feelings of well-being, economic growth in itself will not do the job. Full employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not only in higher income nations but also in countries...
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The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited
Easterlin, Richard A.; Angelescu McVey, Laura; Switek, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The striking thing about the happiness-income paradox is that over the long-term – usually a period of 10 y or more – happiness does not increase as a country's income rises. Heretofore the evidence for this was limited to developed countries. This article presents evidence that the long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147296
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Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094087
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682244
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The Long-Term Effects of the Chernobyl Catastrophe on Subjective Well-Being and Mental Health
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer (née Weisshaar), Natalia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper assesses the long-term subjective well-being and mental health toll of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 in the general Ukrainian population and estimates the monetary differential necessary to compensate victims of the catastrophe. The analysis is based on two nationally representative...
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The Happiness Gains from Sorting and Matching in the Labor Market
Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Winkelmann, Rainer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is...
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Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification
Easterlin, Richard A.; Zimmermann, Anke C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Throughout Germany real income has trended upward since 1991, but life satisfaction has risen in the East, fallen in the West, and been fairly stable for Germany as a whole. By 1997 the initial excess of West over East Germany was cut by over one-half; since then, the differential has changed...
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