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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …-being. Finally, studying changes in satisfaction over time, we find that as countries experience economic growth, their citizens …

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Subjective Well-Being and Income : Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2021

Many scholars have argued that once “basic needs” have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing...

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The Global Joint Distribution of Income and Health

Wu, Ximing; Savvides, Andreas; Stengos, Thanasēs - 2021

We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we estimate the marginal distributions of income and life expectancy separately. More importantly, in contrast to previous univariate approaches, we consider income and life expectancy...

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Education and Health : The Role of Cognitive Ability

Bijwaard, Govert; Van Kippersluis, Hans; Veenman, Justus - 2021

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality register 1995 …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education (i.e. the …

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Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing Using Millions of Digitized Books

Hills, Thomas - 2017

measures where available. The relationship with life expectancy is significant and positive. Infant mortality correlates …

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Do Natural Resources Depress Income Per Capita?

Arezki, Rabah - 2010

Most evidence for the resource curse comes from cross-country growth regressions suffers from a bias originating from the high and ever-evolving volatility in commodity prices. This paper addresses these issues by providing new cross-country empirical evidence for the effect of resources in...

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The Environmental Kuznets Curve and Sustainability : A Panel Data Analysis

Farhani, Sahbi - 2014

In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. But related hypotheses, performance measures and results continue to present a challenge. The present paper contributes to this ongoing literature...

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Robust Growth Determinants

Doppelhofer, Gernot - 2011

This paper investigates the robustness of determinants of economic growth in the presence of model uncertainty, parameter heterogeneity and outliers. The robust model averaging approach introduced in the paper uses a flexible and parsimonious mixture modeling that allows for fat-tailed errors...

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Terror Per Capita

Jetter, Michael - 2017

Usually, studies analyzing terrorism focus on the total number of casualties or attacks in a given county. However, per capita rates of terrorism are more likely to matter for individual welfare. Analyzing 214 countries from 1970-2014, we show that three stylized findings are overturned in terms...

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Has Creative Destruction Become More Destructive?

Komlos, John - 2021

Schumpeter’s concept of creative destruction as the engine of capitalist development is well-known. However, that the destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP and on welfare is hardly acknowledged, with...

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