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Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-being Reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
, although it fell slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which …
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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 But this empirical regularity has been replaced by a monotonic decrease in illbeing by age.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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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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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 …
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International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being
Helliwell, John F. - 2009
and regions in the factors linked to life satisfaction, paying special attention to the social context. Our principal … findings are: First, using the larger pooled sample, we find that answers to the satisfaction with life and Cantril ladder … international and intra-national differences in life satisfaction. Third, the very significant influences of both income and social …
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Beyond Happiness and Satisfaction : Toward Well-Being Indices Based on Stated Preference
Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2012
relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …
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Wellbeing Rankings
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
affect measures - life satisfaction, enjoyment, smiling and being well-rested - and four negative affect variables - pain …
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The Gender Well-being Gap
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
endogenous variables. However, when one examines the three 'global' wellbeing metrics - happiness, life satisfaction and Cantril …
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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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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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