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Blanchflower, David G. - 1989

Although there exists a large literature on the effects of trade unions upon wages, there is no published work that uses microeconomic data to examine the employment consequences of unionization. The paper addresses this issue with a new British data set and shows that, even after the addition...

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Money, Sex, and Happiness : An Empirical Study

Blanchflower, David G. - 2004

This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a random sample of 16,000 adult Americans. The paper finds that sexual activity enters strongly positively in happiness equations. Greater income does not buy more sex, nor more sexual...

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Is Business Cycle Volatility Costly? Evidence from Surveys of Subjective Wellbeing

Wolfers, Justin - 2003

-reported happiness and life satisfaction. I find robust evidence that high inflation and, to a greater extent, unemployment lower …

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Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA

Blanchflower, David G. - 2000

declined over the period in the United States. Life satisfaction has been approximately flat through time in Great Britain …

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Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being : Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox

Stevenson, Betsey - 2008

The "Easterlin paradox" suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear positive...

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The Rising Well-Being of the Young

Blanchflower, David G. - 1997

Surveys, the paper studies the reported happiness and life-satisfaction scores of random samples of young men and women. " The …

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International Happiness

Blanchflower, David G. - 2011

This paper describes the findings from a new, and intrinsically interdisciplinary, literature on happiness and human well-being. The paper focuses on international evidence. We report the patterns in modern data; we discuss what has been persuasively established and what has not; we suggest paths...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W. - 2010

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …- being. Finally, studying changes in satisfaction over time, we find that as countries experience economic growth, their …

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The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

Stevenson, Betsey - 2009

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is...

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Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility

Blanchflower, David G. - 2008

If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...

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