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Happy life-expectancy : a comprehensive measure of quality-of-life nations
Veenhoven, Ruut - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000955060
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Developments in satisfaction research
Veenhoven, Ruut - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000955076
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Economic growth and subjective well-being : reassessing the Easterlin Paradox
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - In: Brookings papers on economic activity : BPEA (2008) 1, pp. 1-102
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003764838
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The paradox of declining female happiness
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2009
that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …-being, and is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded … a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003859341
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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152425
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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013
; happiness ; race …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727586
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The new stylized facts about income and subjective well-being
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2012
In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683272
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Subjective well‐being and income : is there any evidence of satiation?
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013
-being ; happiness ; satiation ; basic needs ; Easterlin paradox …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009738762
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The economic and social determinants of migrants' well-being during the global financial crisis
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara - 2018
This paper investigates the economic and social determinants affecting the well-being of temporary migrants before, during and after the financial crisis. Exploiting unique panel data which cover migration spells from Tajikistan between 2001 and 2011, we find that migrants earn less but stay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785812
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Happiness inequality in the United States
Stevenson, Betsey (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972 …-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s …. There have been large changes in the level of happiness across groups: Two-thirds of the black-white happiness gap has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003747645