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Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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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Happiness and Aging in the United States

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

The past decade has brought increasing concern, in countries all over the world, of declines in mental health and well-being. Across countries, chronic depression and suicide rates peak in midlife. In the U.S., deaths of despair are most likely to occur in these years, and the patterns are...

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Wellbeing Rankings

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

reported in the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index …

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The Declining Mental Health Of The Young And The Global Disappearance Of The Hump Shape In Age In Unhappiness

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Xu, Xiaowei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Across many studies subjective well-being follows a U-shape in age, declining until people reach middle-age, only to rebound subsequently. Ill-being follows a mirror-imaged hump-shape. But this empirical regularity has been replaced by a monotonic decrease in illbeing by age. The reason for the...

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Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs

Blanchflower, David G. - 2008

n this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper that related to the UK. Data on random samples of approximately twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic...

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Health at older ages : the causes and consequences of declining disability among the elderly

Cutler, David M. (ed.); Wise, David A. (contributor) - 2008

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Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA

Blanchflower, David G. - 2000

100,000 randomly sampled Americans and Britons from the early 1970s to the late 1990s. Reported levels of happiness have …. Counter to the general US trend, the happiness of blacks in that nation has risen since the early 1970s. The black …-white happiness differential has diminished. The happiness of American men has grown. Despite legislation aimed to reduce gender …

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Unions Increase Job Satisfaction in the United States

Artz, Benjamin; Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We revisit the well-known negative association between union coverage and individuals' job satisfaction in the United States, first identified over forty years ago. We find the association has flipped since the Great Recession such that union workers are now more satisfied than their non-union...

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The Economics of Walking About and Predicting US Downturns

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Economic shocks are notoriously difficult to predict but recent research suggests qualitative metrics about economic actors' expectations are predictive of downturns. We show consumer expectations indices from both the Conference Board and the University of Michigan predict economic downturns up...

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Native Americans' Experience of Chronic Distress in the USA

Blanchflower, David G.; Feir, Donna - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Four million Native Americans who identify as single race live in the USA. Another three million identify as Native …

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