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Grandpa and the Snapper: the Wellbeing of the Elderly who Live with Children

Deaton, Angus; Stone, Arthur A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

experience worse emotional outcomes, including less happiness and enjoyment, and more stress, worry, and anger. In part, these …

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Beyond Happiness and Satisfaction: Toward Well-Being Indices Based on Stated Preference

Kimball, Miles Spencer; Benjamin, Daniel J.; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …

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The Half-Life of Happiness: Hedonic Adaptation in the Subjective Well-Being of Poor Slum Dwellers to a Large Improvement in Housing

Gertler, Paul; Galiani, Sebastian; Undurraga, Raimundo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

A fundamental question in economics is whether happiness increases pari passu with improvements in material conditions …-being over time. The objective is to determine whether poor populations exhibit hedonic adaptation in happiness derived from …

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Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel

Di Tella, Rafael; New, John Haisken-De; MacCulloch, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We study "habituation" to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people living in … Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a "happiness equation" defined over several lags of income and status and … standard deviation in income are associated with similar increases in happiness. In the long-run (five year average) a one …

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The Transformation of Hunger: The Demand for Calories Past and Present

Logan, Trevon D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

According to conventional income measures, nineteenth century American and British industrial workers were two to four times as wealthy as poor people in developing countries today. Surprisingly, however, today's poor are less hungry than yesterday's wealthy industrial workers. I estimate the...

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How Much is Social Capital Worth?

Helliwell, John F.; Barrington-Leigh, Christopher P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper uses data from global and Canadian surveys data to estimate the powerful linkages between social connections, their related social identities, and subjective well-being. Our explanatory variables include several measures of the extent and frequency of use of social networks, combined...

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The Risk of Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditure at End of Life

Skinner, Jonathan; Marshall, Samuel; McGarry, Kathleen M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

There is conflicting evidence on the importance of out-of-pocket medical expenditures as a risk to financial security, particularly at older ages. We revisit this question, focusing on health care spending near the end of life using data from the Health and Retirement Study for the years...

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Well-Being, Social Capital and Public Policy: What's New?

Helliwell, John F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper summarizes recent empirical research on the determinants of subjective well-being. Results from national and international samples suggest that measures of social capital, including especially the corollary measures of specific and general trust, have substantial effects on well-being...

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Well-being and Trust in the Workplace

Helliwell, John F.; Huang, Haifang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper summarizes and extends our recent work using life satisfaction regressions to estimate the relative values of financial and non-financial job characteristics. The well-being results show strikingly large values for non-financial job characteristics, especially workplace trust and...

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Welfare Reform and Family Expenditures: How are Single Mothers Adapting to the New Welfare and Work Regime?

Kaushal, Neeraj; Gao, Qin; Waldfogel, Jane - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

We study the effect of welfare reform, broadly defined to include social policy changes in the 1990s, on the material well-being and expenditure patterns of poor single-mother families. Our research suggests that welfare reform did not affect total expenditures in households headed by...

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