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New Measures of the Costs of Unemployment : Evidence from the Subjective Well-Being of 3.3 Million Americans

Helliwell, John F. - 2011

Using two large US surveys, we estimate the effects of unemployment on the subjective well-being of the unemployed and the rest of the population. For the unemployed, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment are several times as large as those due to lower incomes, while the indirect effect at...

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International Happiness

Blanchflower, David G. - 2011

This paper describes the findings from a new, and intrinsically interdisciplinary, literature on happiness and human …

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Changing Identity : Retiring from Unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens - 2011

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...

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Early Maternal Employment and Family Wellbeing

Chatterji, Pinka - 2011

This study uses longitudinal data from the NICHD Study on Early Child Care (SECC) to examine the effects of maternal employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First, we estimate the effects of maternal employment on...

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Aging, Religion, and Health

Deaton, Angus - 2009

Durkheim's famous study of suicide is a precursor of a large contemporary literature that investigates the links between religion and health. The topic is particularly germane for the health of women and of the elderly, who are much more likely to be religious. In this paper, I use data from the...

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Hypertension and Happiness Across Nations

Blanchflower, David G. - 2007

A modern statistical literature argues that countries such as Denmark are particularly happy while nations like East Germany are not. Are such claims credible? The paper explores this by building on two ideas. The first is that psychological well-being and high blood-pressure are thought by...

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What Good is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption

Finkelstein, Amy - 2010

We estimate how the marginal utility of consumption varies with health. To do so, we develop a simple model in which the impact of health on the marginal utility of consumption can be estimated from data on permanent income, health, and utility proxies. We estimate the model using the Health and...

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Happiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks

Di Tella, Rafael - 2010

We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the unemployment rate and the inflation rate. Our preferred interpretation is that this shows that emotions are affected by macroeconomic fluctuations. Contentment is, at a minimum, one of the...

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Income, Aging, Health and Wellbeing Around the World : Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

Deaton, Angus - 2010

of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at … their relationships with national income, age, and life-expectancy. Average happiness is strongly related to per capita … inconsistent relationship with happiness. National income moderates the effects of aging on self-reported health, and the decline …

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Dissatisfied with Life, but Having a Good Day : Time-Use and Well-Being of the Unemployed

Knabe, Andreas - 2009

We apply the Day Reconstruction Method to compare unemployed and employed people with respect to their subjective assessment of emotional affects, differences in the composition and duration of activities during the course of a day, and their self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are...

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