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Work Expectations, Realizations, and Depression in Older Workers
Falba, Tracy A. - 2008
We explore the impact on depressive symptoms of deviation in actual labor force behavior at age 62 from earlier expectations. Our sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We examine workers who were less than 62 years of age at the 1992 HRS baseline, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464212
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463927
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Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel
Tella, Rafael Di - 2007
Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a "happiness equation" defined over several lags of income and status and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465494
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Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness : Adjusting to Loss
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533301
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Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing : Evidence Using the Timing of Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Fixed Effects
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2008
The question of whether giving birth as a teenager has negative economic consequences for the mother remains controversial despite substantial research. In this paper, we build upon existing literature, especially the literature that uses the experience of teenagers who had a miscarriage as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464799
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Cognitive Performance and Labor Market Outcomes
Lin, Dajun - 2016
We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456207
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Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility : Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Smith, Kendall E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468267
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On the Determinants of Young Adult Outcomes : Impacts of Randomly Assigned Neighborhoods For Children in Military Families
Kawano, Laura; Sacerdote, Bruce; Skimmyhorn, William L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using the quasi-random assignment of 760,000 children in U.S. military families, we show that neighborhood attributes experienced during childhood have powerful impacts on SAT scores, college-going and earnings. For earnings and college going outcomes, location during high school is twice as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635637
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The Rising Well-Being of the Young
Blanchflower, David G. - 1997
Surveys, the paper studies the reported happiness and life-satisfaction scores of random samples of young men and women. " The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472712