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The paradox of declining female happiness

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2009

that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …-being, and is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded … a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …

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On gender inequality and life satisfaction : does discrimination matter?

Bjørnskov, Christian (contributor); … - 2007 - April 2007, final version

practices have been less prevalent in the economy 20 years ago. -- Gender gap ; happiness ; well-being ; discrimination ; life …

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Unemployment, social capital, and subjective well-being

Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2006

It has been shown in past research that unemployment has a large negative impact on subjective well-being of individuals. In this paper, I explore whether and to what extent people with more social capital are sheltered from the harmful effects of unemployment. Using data from the German...

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Formal institutions and subjective well-being : revisiting the cross-country evidence

Bjørnskov, Christian (contributor); … - 2008

performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited. In this paper …, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association. Our findings suggest … that the conclusions reached by previous studies are fairly sensitive to the specific measure of 'happiness' used. In …

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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013

; happiness ; race …

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The new stylized facts about income and subjective well-being

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2012

In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...

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Income and happiness : new results from generalized threshold and sequential models

Boes, Stefan (contributor); Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The happiness gains from sorting and matching in the labor market

Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Stutzer, Alois (contributor) - 2006

Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is...

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What can happiness research tell us about altruism? : Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Schwarze, Johannes (contributor); … - 2005

parents' self-reported happiness depends positively, albeit not very strongly, on the happiness of adult children who moved …

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