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In settings where an individual's labor choices are constrained, the inability to work may generate psychosocial harm. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh. We engage 745 individuals in a field experiment with...
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wellbeing metrics - happiness and life satisfaction - is less clear cut. Differences vary over time, location, and with model … in happiness data regarding whether males are happier than females but find little variation by month in unhappiness data … reveal that women's happiness was more adversely affected by the COVID shock than men's, but also that women's happiness …
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A growing literature identifies associations between subjective and biometric indicators of wellbeing. These associations, together with the ability of subjective wellbeing (SWB) metrics to predict health and behavioral outcomes, have spawned increasing interest in SWB as an important concept in...
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additional evidence from an array of attitudinal questions that were worded slightly differently than standard happiness or life … estimates for advanced countries gives a similar minimum of 47.2. The happiness curve is everywhere …
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I examine the relationship between unhappiness and age using data from six well-being data files on nearly ten million respondents across forty European countries and the United States. I use fifteen different individual characterizations of unhappiness including despair; anxiety; loneliness;...
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This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup … national happiness, but democratic quality is not. We also analyze other quality of government indicators. Confidence in … government is correlated with happiness, however forms of democracy and government spending seem not. We further discuss three …
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strategies, we show that the higher transparency increased the gap in happiness between richer and poorer individuals by 29%, and …
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highly significant interactions. Results are presented for life evaluations and (in some surveys) for happiness yesterday, in …
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wellbeing including life satisfaction and happiness, several macro variables and various measures of trust. Union members are …
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their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases … happiness may have been increased compared to before the lock-downs; but sufficiently large losses of work time and income … reverse this inference. Simulations demonstrate clearly that, assuming lock-downs impose solitude on singles, their happiness …
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