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Individual well-being in urban China : the role of income expectations

Liu, Zhiqiang; Shang, Qingyan - In: China economic review : an international journal 23 (2012) 4, pp. 833-849

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International Happiness

Blanchflower, David G. - 2011

This paper describes the findings from a new, and intrinsically interdisciplinary, literature on happiness and human …

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"Beauty is the Promise of Happiness"?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011

We measure the impact of individuals' looks on life satisfaction/happiness. Using five data sets, from the U.S., Canada … beauty. Beauty raises happiness: A one standard-deviation change in beauty generates about 0.10 standard deviations of … additional satisfaction/happiness among men, 0.12 among women. Accounting for a wide variety of covariates, particularly effects …

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Early Maternal Employment and Family Wellbeing

Chatterji, Pinka - 2011

This study uses longitudinal data from the NICHD Study on Early Child Care (SECC) to examine the effects of maternal employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First, we estimate the effects of maternal employment on...

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The Friends Factor : How Students' Social Networks Affect Their Academic Achievement and Well-Being?

Lavy, Victor - 2012

have positive effects on other measures of well-being, including social and overall happiness in school, time allocated for …

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Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred from Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices

Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2013

satisfaction and Cantril's ladder) imply tradeoffs closer to choice than does affective happiness (even time-integrated), and as …

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Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan

Campante, Filipe R. - 2013

We study the economic effects of religious practices in the context of the observance of Ramadan fasting, one of the central tenets of Islam. To establish causality, we exploit variation in the length of the fasting period due to the rotating Islamic calendar. We report two key, quantitatively...

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The Under-Reporting of Transfers in Household Surveys : Its Nature and Consequences

Meyer, Bruce D. - 2010

High rates of understatement are found for many government transfer programs and in many datasets. This understatement has major implications for our understanding of economic well-being and the effects of transfer programs. We provide estimates of the extent of under-reporting for ten transfer...

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Aging, Religion, and Health

Deaton, Angus - 2009

Durkheim's famous study of suicide is a precursor of a large contemporary literature that investigates the links between religion and health. The topic is particularly germane for the health of women and of the elderly, who are much more likely to be religious. In this paper, I use data from the...

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