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negative impact of the protests on life satisfaction is observed among women, members of working class, and those with primary …This study examines the causal effect of the violent "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests in Iran during the last quarter of … 2022 on individual life satisfaction. To evaluate the impact, we use two original representative surveys in Iran conducted …
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The relationship between the distribution of political rights and that of economic resources has been studied both theoretically and empirically. This paper reviews the existing literature and, in particular, the available empirical evidence.Our reading of the literature suggests that formal...
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more lenient and child labor thus more prevalent than in countries enjoying political freedom. We test this implication and …
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, multinational enterprises rather appear to be attracted by countries in which civil and political freedom is respected. Our finding …
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to provide a "sage" approach to assessing well-being, since it aims to denote sagacity in the pursuit and satisfaction of …
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We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to … expected. -- happiness ; subjective well-being ; financial satisfaction ; Israel ; religion ; immigration ; terrorism …
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Economic freedom and economic growth can be connected in most countries, but it is often necessary to specify those … aspects of economic freedom that can foster economic growth. This paper examines the nexus between economic freedom and … general, economic freedom positively influences economic growth in the LDCs. Moreover, most economic freedom factors raise …
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Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for … women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens' approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss … constitution as a proxy for the norm that "women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value". We find that …
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experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We …Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature … well-being for unemployed women. Drawing upon large-scale German panel data, we use the German division as a natural …
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This paper proposes three theoretical mechanisms through which polygyny may be related to social unrest. The mechanisms are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic,...
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