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Akay, Alpaslan; Constant, Amelie; Giulietti, Corrado; … - 2016

This paper investigates how ethnic diversity, measured by the immigrants' countries of origin, influences the well-being of the host country. Using panel data from Germany for the period 1998 to 2012, we find a positive effect of ethnic diversity on the well-being of German citizens. To...

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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction

Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006

The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...

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

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2007

We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this argument is that there are likely to be omitted cohort effects (earlier generations may have been born in, say, particularly good or bad times). First, using data on 500,000...

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Hypertension and happiness across nations

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 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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Life satisfaction and air quality in Europe

Ferreira, Susana; Akay, Alpaslan; Brereton, Finbarr; … - 2012

-being in Europe. We use a unique dataset that merges three waves of the European Social Survey with a new dataset on … environmental quality including SO2 concentrations and climate in Europe at the regional level. We find a robust negative impact of … satisfaction ; Europe ; European Social Survey ; GIS …

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The French unhappiness puzzle : the cultural dimension of happiness

Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2011

This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of equivalent affluence. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to disentangle the influence of objective circumstances versus...

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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 …

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Antidepressants and age

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2011

Antidepressants as a commodity have been remarkably little-studied by economists. This study shows in new data for 27 European countries that 8% of people (and 10% of those middle-aged) take antidepressants each year. The probability of antidepressant use is greatest among those who are...

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Smoking bans, cigarette prices and life satisfaction

Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2013

The consequences of tobacco control policies for individual welfare are difficult to assess. We therefore evaluate the impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions between 1990 and 2011. We exploit the staggered...

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