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Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect equations, irrespective of the measure used - anxiety, depression, fearfulness, sadness, loneliness, anger - and they have more days with bad mental health and more restless...

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Skill policies for Scotland

Heckman, James J. (contributor); … - 2004

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...

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International evidence on well-being

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor) - 2008

National Time Accounting is a way of measuring society's well-being, based on time use. Its explicit form is the U-index, for "unpleasant" or "undesirable", which measures the proportion of time an individual spends in an unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on...

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Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-being Reducing?

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

' expectations of the economy and the labor market. Neither the UN's Human Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World … Happiness Report from the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last …

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Were COVID and the Great Recession well-being reducing?

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023

Using micro-data on six surveys - the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System … the annual data from the United Nation's Humasn Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World Happiness Report from … the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last decade or so …

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Precious metal prices : a tale of four U.S. recessions

Agnese, Pablo; Garcia-del-Barrio, Pedro; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2023

This paper empirically examines the degree of persistence in four precious metal prices (i.e., gold, palladium, platinum, and silver) during the last four U.S. recessions. Unit root tests and fractional integration techniques suggest that gold still is the most prominent safe haven asset within...

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The Gender Well-being Gap

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

-country surveys from 167 countries across the world, two US surveys covering multiple years and a survey for Canada. We find women …

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Wellbeing rankings

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022

Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 … the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index. The state level …

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Wellbeing Rankings

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 … reported in the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477251

The performance of performance standards

Heckman, James J.; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2002

This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in government organizations. We present a model of how performance incentives may distort bureaucratic decisions. We define cream skimming within the model. Two major empirical...

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