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Energy and the Environment in Economic History

Clay, Karen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Both energy and the environment are inputs into production, influencing the economy and the overall welfare of the … population. While the economy itself has been a central focus of economic history from its inception, energy and the environment … some thoughts regarding opportunities for further research in energy and the environment …

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The Midlife Crisis

Giuntella, Osea; McManus, Sally; Mujcic, Redzo; Oswald, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper documents a longitudinal crisis of midlife among the inhabitants of rich nations. Yet middle-aged citizens in our data sets are close to their peak earnings, have typically experienced little or no illness, reside in some of the safest countries in the world, and live in the most...

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Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-being Reducing?

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We show individuals' reports of subjective well being in Europe did decline in the Great Recession and during the Covid pandemic on most measures and on four bordering countries to Ukraine after the Russian invasion in 2022. However, the movements are not large and are not apparent everywhere....

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Happiness Dynamics, Reference Dependence, and Motivated Beliefs in U.S. Presidential Elections

Kimball, Miles S.; Raymond, Collin; Zhou, Jiannan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Collecting and analyzing panel data over the last four U.S. presidential elections, we study the drivers of self-reported happiness. We relate our empirical findings to existing models of elation, reference dependence, and belief formation. In addition to corroborating previous findings in the...

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Harmonizing the Yin and Yang : Gender Disparities in Subjective Well-Being after Retirement in China

Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Chou, Shin-yi; Yu, Han - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

China's distinctive demographic landscape, early retirement policies, and deeply ingrained gender norms provide a unique backdrop for investigating gender disparities in retirement and subjective well-being. Drawing upon data from the China Family Panel Studies and leveraging the variation...

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From Happiness Data to Economic Conclusions

Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Happiness data--survey respondents' self-reported well-being (SWB)--have become increasingly common in economics research, with recent calls to use them in policymaking. Researchers have used SWB data in novel ways, for example to learn about welfare or preferences when choice data are...

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Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being

Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...

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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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Should History Change The Way We Think About Populism?

De Bromhead, Alan; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper asks whether history should change the way in which economists and economic historians think about populism. We use Müller's definition, according to which populism is 'an exclusionary form of identity politics, which is why it poses a threat to democracy'. We make three historical...

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The Market and Climate Implications of U.S. LNG Exports

Stock, James H.; Zaragoza-Watkins, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

From 2015 to 2023, the United States transformed from a net importer of natural gas to the world's largest liquified natural gas (LNG) exporter. We find that this surge in LNG exports has reconnected U.S. gas prices to world market prices, after a hiatus of "shut-in" fracked gas. We estimate...

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