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correlation between national average suicide rates and measures of life satisfaction. Thus social capital does appear to improve … well-being, whether measured by higher average values of life satisfaction or by lower average suicide rates. There is a … variables that have more weight in explaining life satisfaction than suicide (trust and quality of government), and less …
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county, as well as improvements in self-reported mental and physical health. We further find that this reduction in suicide … is precisely what is predicted by the literature linking economic conditions to suicide risk …
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lower life satisfaction and more pessimism about the future at age 50. Taken together, these results suggest social …
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satisfaction questions such as satisfaction with an individual's financial situation. Averaging across the 257 individual country …
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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;...
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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...
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it increased the life satisfaction gap by 21%. We provide suggestive evidence that some, although probably not all, of …
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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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