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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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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 …

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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

Relative concerns of rural-to-urban migrants in China

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

As their environment changes, migrants constitute an interesting group to study the effect of relative income on subjective well-being. This paper focuses on the huge population of rural-to-urban migrants in China. Using a novel dataset, we find that the well-being of migrants depends on several...

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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013

; happiness ; race …

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Happy taxpayers? : income taxation and well-being

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2012

This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals' well-being. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in tax rules over time and across demographic groups using 26 years of German panel data. We find that the tax...

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Home sweet home? : macroeconomic conditions in home countries and the well-being of migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013

This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluctuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 and macroeconomic variables for 24 countries of origin, we exploit country-year...

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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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Subjective well‐being and income : is there any evidence of satiation?

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013

-being ; happiness ; satiation ; basic needs ; Easterlin paradox …

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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...

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