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Is well-being U-shaped over the life cycle?

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2007

We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this …

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Blanchflower, David G. - 2008

. Higher inequality also lowers happiness. Third, we know little about the predictive power of the U-index. Happiness and life … paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely be … replaced by the U-index. I find that first, that there are many similarities. According to both measures happiness is higher …

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Imitative obesity and relative utility

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Van … - 2009

If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...

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Happiness and health care coverage

Blanchflower, David G. - 2009

In this paper I examine the characteristics of adults who report on whether they have health care coverage and of people who say that they are unable to see a doctor over the preceding year because of the cost. I make use of a unique data set, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a...

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What makes a young entrepreneur?

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2007

This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on young people’s employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and the Current Population Survey in the United...

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Youth unemployment in Europe and the United States

Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2011

lessons have been learned that may guide future policy. We focus on Europe and USA, but introduce evidence from other … are weekly wages and happiness. Our results show significant effects at age 50 from early adulthood unemployment. These …

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Hypertension and happiness across nations

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2007

A modern statistical literature argues that countries such as Denmark are particularly happy while nations like East Germany are not. Are such claims credible? The paper explores this by building on two ideas. The first is that psychological well-being and high blood-pressure are thought by...

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Happiness and the human development index: the paradox of Australia

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2005

happiness, considers implications for policymakers, and explores where Australia lies in international subjective well …, where a common language should help subjective measures to be reliable, Australia performs poorly on a range of happiness …

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The Scots may be brave but they are neither healthy nor happy

Bell, David N.F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2005

On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The self-assessed wellbeing of Scots is lower than that of...

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Wellbeing Rankings

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022

the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index. The state level …

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