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National well-being policy and a weighted approach to human feelings

O'Donnell, Gus; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Ecological Economics

traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information on citizens' happiness, life satisfaction, and other …

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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration

Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for …

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The midlife crisis

Giuntella, Osea; McManus, Sally; Mujcic, Redzo; Oswald, … - 2022

This paper documents a longitudinal crisis of midlife among the inhabitants of rich nations. Yet middle-aged citizens in our data sets are close to their peak earnings, have typically experienced little or no illness, reside in some of the safest countries in the world, and live in the most...

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Explaining happiness trends in Europe

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to … the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …

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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

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Happiness and growth the world over : time series evidence on the happiness-income paradox

Easterlin, Richard A.; Angelescu, Laura - 2009

There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per …-term positive association between the growth of happiness and income, arising from fluctuations in macroeconomic conditions, with … the long-term relationship, which is nil. -- Happiness ; economic growth ; developing countries ; transition countries …

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Modern economic growth and quality of life : cross sectional and time series evidence

Easterlin, Richard A. (contributor); … - 2007

rights, happiness, and the like) associated with economic growth? International comparisons of quality of life (QoL … sometimes, as in the case of happiness and life satisfaction, QoL indicators remain unchanged despite a doubling or more of real …

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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...

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Emotional prosperity and the Stiglitz Commission

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2010

-being ; biomarkers ; GHQ ; happiness ; Easterlin paradox …

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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...

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