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Fidrmuc, Jan - 2015

We use four ways of the European Social Survey, covering 2000 to 2008, to analyze the effect of religion on happiness … lowers happiness while the latter raises it. We interpret this as evidence that the tangible aspects of religion (such as … abiding by restrictions on consumption and behavior) decrease happiness while the spiritual aspects increase it. We also find …

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How's Life at Home? New Evidence on Marriage and the Set Point for Happiness

Grover, Shawn - 2015

Subjective well-being research has often found that marriage is positively correlated with well-being. Some have argued that this correlation may be result of happier people being more likely to marry. Others have presented evidence suggesting that the well-being benefits of marriage are...

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Friday the 13th : The Empirics of Bad Luck

Fidrmuc, Jan - 2014

We use the UK Labor Force survey to investigate whether the socio-economic outcomes of people born on the 13th day of the month, and of those born on Friday the 13th, differ from the outcomes of people born on more auspicious days. In many European countries, including the UK, such days are...

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Is Psychological Well-Being Linked to the Consumption of Fruit and Vegetables?

Blanchflower, David G. - 2012

-being. In cross-sectional data, happiness and mental health rise in an approximately dose-response way with the number of daily … satisfaction, WEMWBS mental well-being, GHQ mental disorders, self-reported health, happiness, nervousness, and feeling low …

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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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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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Scarring or Scaring? The Psychological Impact of Past Unemployment and Future Unemployment Risk

Knabe, Andreas - 2008

We reassess the quot;scarringquot; hypothesis by Clark et al. (2001), which states that unemployment experienced in the past reduces a person's current life satisfaction even after the person has become reemployed. Our results suggest that the scar from past unemployment operates via worsened...

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Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing Using Millions of Digitized Books

Hills, Thomas - 2017

We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most to the 1970s, our measure goes back at least 200...

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The Well-Being of the Overemployed and the Underemployed and the Rise in Depression in the UK

Bell, David N.F. - 2018

of five main measures of well-being: happiness; life satisfaction; whether life is worthwhile; anxiety and depression … in 2010 that is not matched by declines in happiness measures (positive affect). The fear of unemployment obtained from …

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Income Support, (Un-)Employment and Well-Being

Hetschko, Clemens - 2016

Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the non-pecuniary life satisfaction effects of in-work benefits. Our empirical strategy combines difference-in-difference designs with synthetic control groups to analyze transitions of workers between unemployment,...

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