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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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highly significant interactions. Results are presented for life evaluations and (in some surveys) for happiness yesterday, in …
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We develop a consistent and comprehensive theoretical framework for assessing whether economic growth is compatible with sustaining well-being over time. The framework focuses on whether a comprehensive measure of wealth - one that accounts for natural capital and human capital as well as...
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High rates of understatement are found for many government transfer programs and in many datasets. This understatement has major implications for our understanding of economic well-being and the effects of transfer programs. We provide estimates of the extent of under-reporting for ten transfer...
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this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely … be replaced by the U-index. I find that first, that there are many similarities. According to both measures happiness is … large body of data on happiness that is unavailable on the U-index. For example, according to happiness research well …
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We estimate how the marginal utility of consumption varies with health. To do so, we develop a simple model in which the impact of health on the marginal utility of consumption can be estimated from data on permanent income, health, and utility proxies. We estimate the model using the Health and...
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of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at … their relationships with national income, age, and life-expectancy. Average happiness is strongly related to per capita … inconsistent relationship with happiness. National income moderates the effects of aging on self-reported health, and the decline …
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of happiness. Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX), we examine whether households who contribute to a … services are able to insure their stream of happiness against income shocks and find strong happiness insurance effects for …
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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 effects on the happiness of highly educated people than those with low levels of education. The happiness …
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-reported happiness and life satisfaction. I find robust evidence that high inflation and, to a greater extent, unemployment lower …
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