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Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany
Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - 2020
We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in … groups. In a difference-in-differences design, we compare the change for individuals with children to the change for … individuals without children, accounting for unrelated trends as well as potential survey mode and context effects. We find that …
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The baby year parental leave reform in the GDR and its impact on children's long-term life satisfaction
Heisig, Katharina; Zierow, Larissa - 2019
children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064990
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The "welcomed lockdown" hypothesis : when do mobility restrictions influence mental wellbeing?
Costa-Font, Joan; Knapp, Martin; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2022
the effects on two mental health conditions, namely anxiety and depression. We examine whether differences in symptoms of … anxiety and depression are explained by mortality and stringency of lockdown measures using ad event study that draws on … an average increase in depression (3.95%) and anxiety (10%) symptoms relative to the mean level on the day that the …
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Is a sorrow shared a sorrow doubled? : parental unemployment and the life satisfaction of adolescent children
Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Lücke, Christine - 2023
-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal … differential impacts between sons and daughters or between younger and older children. Further results suggest that the impact of …
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The cost of well-being
Pettini, Anna; Patrizi, Vincenzo; Resce, Giuliano - 2015
Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...
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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration
Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015 - Revised
This paper studies a famous unsolved puzzle in quantitative social science. Why do some nations report such high levels of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries' happiness; Britain and the US enter further down; some nations do unexpectedly...
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Trust, Happiness, and pro-social behavior
Carattini, Stefano; Roesti, Matthias - 2020
This paper combines several large-scale surveys with different identification strategies to shed new light on the determinants of cooperative behavior. We provide evidence indicating that the well-being maximizing level of trust is above the income maximizing level. Higher trust is also linked...
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Recoupling economic and social prosperity
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human wellbeing, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be...
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The effect of the "Woman Life Freedom" protests on life satisfaction in Iran : evidence from survey data
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023
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 in 2022. Our results, based on an ordered logit...
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Socialism, identity and the well-being of unemployed women
Günther, Tom; Conradi, Jakob; Hetschko, Clemens - 2024
Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature investigates these non-pecuniary costs of unemployment and stresses the importance of social identity and therefore social norms, especially for men. We add to this literature by...
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