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Insuring Consumption and Happiness Through Religious Organizations
Dehejia, Rajeev - 2005
This paper examines whether involvement with religious organizations insures an individual's stream of consumption and … religious organization are able to insure their consumption stream against income shocks and find strong insurance effects for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467102
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Taking the Pulse of Nations : a Biometric Measure of Well-being
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
lower life satisfaction and more pessimism about the future at age 50. Taken together, these results suggest social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794615
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Is Happiness U-shaped Everywhere? Age and Subjective Well-being in 132 Countries
Blanchflower, David G. - 2020
satisfaction questions such as satisfaction with an individual's financial situation. Averaging across the 257 individual country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479165
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Unhappiness and age
Blanchflower, David G. - 2020
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;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479166
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Happiness and the Quality of Government
Helliwell, John F. - 2020
This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and generally over 1,500 national-level observations, we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479363
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The Effects of Income Transparency on Well-Being : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2019
it increased the life satisfaction gap by 21%. We provide suggestive evidence that some, although probably not all, of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479574
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Happiness at Different Ages : The Social Context Matters
Helliwell, John F. - 2018
with greater life satisfaction at all ages, but especially so at ages 60 and above, in some samples deepening the U …-shape in age by increasing the size of the life satisfaction gains following the mid-life low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480773
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Now Unions Increase Job Satisfaction and Well-being
Blanchflower, David G. - 2020
union membership and employee job satisfaction is positive and statistically significant. This runs counter to findings in … United States we show the association between union membership and job satisfaction switched from negative to positive in the … between membership and job satisfaction is apparent in cohorts born in the 1940s and 1950s but turns positive for those born …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481268
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Building an Epidemiology of Happiness
Helliwell, John F. - 2020
Starting from the assumption that improving well-being is the central consideration for public policies, we show how subjective well-being research can help, and already is helping, to choose public policies based on their consequences for all aspects of life. The core of the paper lies in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482314
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What Do Happiness Data Mean? Theory and Survey Evidence
Benjamin, Daniel J.; Guzman, Jakina Debnam; Fleurbaey, Marc - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
data. We ask survey respondents what they had in mind regarding (i)-(iii) when answering commonly used--life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482654