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of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries' happiness; Britain and …
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-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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measures students’ happiness with life, and their productivity in a standardized laboratory task. No negative effects from … divorce can be detected. If anything, happiness and productivity are greater, particularly among males, if they have … happiness. Again, the evidence suggests that young people’s mental well-being improves after parental divorce. …
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Economists and behavioural scientists are beginning to make extensive use of measures of subjective well-being, and such data are potentially of value to policy-makers. A particularly famous difficulty is that of “priming”: if the order or nature of survey questions changes people’s likely...
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happiness levels increased, while others in a control group do not. We show that a rise in happiness leads to greater …
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This paper shows that macroeconomic movements have strong effects on the happiness of nations. First, we find that … Europeans and Americans from the 1970's to the 1990's. Happiness equations are monotonically increasing in income, and have a …
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This paper is a continuation of results in Blanchflower and Oswald (2008). It provides new evidence that well-being follows a curve through life. We use data on half a million randomly sampled individuals across eight major European nations. Importantly, we show that in this set of countries...
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control for cohort effects. Holding other factors constant, we show that a typical individual’s happiness reaches its minimum …
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One of the famous questions in social science is whether money makes people happy. We offer new evidence by using longitudinal data on a random sample of Britons who receive medium-sized lottery wins of between £1000 and £120,000 (that is, up to approximately U.S. $200,000). When compared to...
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This paper proposes a new way to think about happiness. It distinguishes between stocks and flows. Central to the …
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