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' expectations of the economy and the labor market. Neither the UN's Human Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World … Happiness Report from the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last …, although it fell slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which …
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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 But this empirical regularity has been replaced by a monotonic decrease in illbeing by age.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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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 "Easterlin paradox" suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear positive...
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This paper uses the first three waves of the Gallup World Poll to investigate differences across countries, cultures … 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 …
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Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 … affect measures - life satisfaction, enjoyment, smiling and being well-rested - and four negative affect variables - pain … reported in the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index …
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-country surveys from 167 countries across the world, two US surveys covering multiple years and a survey for Canada. We find women … endogenous variables. However, when one examines the three 'global' wellbeing metrics - happiness, life satisfaction and Cantril …
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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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relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …
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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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