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best contender as the "maximand" in the contest, before the ladder‐of‐life question and felt happiness. Among the other …
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This study examines the effects of social comparison with a wide range of reference groups on the life satisfaction of Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands. For two sets of ethnic and life-domain reference groups, results are obtained that deviate from the findings of recent studies and that...
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traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information on citizens' happiness, life satisfaction, and other …
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The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1992 to 2013. Additionally, the East-West gap and its trend are separately analyzed for men and women as well as for...
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self-reported happiness. Using panel data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), we begin by … estimating ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions of happiness on a measure of MSA-level segregation, controlling for a rich … associated with a reduction in happiness among blacks. To deal more appropriately with the potential endogeneity of location …
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women as evidenced by their average values for happiness, tiredness, and stress, their predicted values for the same three …
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of international tourist arrivals on the subjective well-being – happiness and life satisfaction – of residents in … satisfaction) than its affective component (happiness). …
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The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The … the literature investigates potential driving effects of happiness on labor market outcomes. This article will give an …
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' response to an exogenous shock of (un)happiness (i.e. the death of husband or wife). We conclude that SWB explains voting …
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happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a … happiness. For some countries their estimated growth rates of happiness and GDP are not trend rates, but those observed in … cyclical expansion or contraction. Mixing these short-term with long-term growth rates shifts a happiness-GDP regression from a …
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