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Unhappiness and pain in modern America : a review essay, and further evidence, on Carol Graham's happiness for all?

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017

In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts … citizens have downwardly trended happiness levels. There is, however, one bright side to an otherwise dark story. The happiness …

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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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Does marriage make people happy, or do happy people get married?

Stutzer, Alois (contributor); Frey, Bruno S. (contributor) - 2005

This paper analyzes the causal relationships between marriage and subjective well-being in a longitudinal data set spanning 17 years. We find evidence that happier singles opt more likely for marriage and that there are large differences in the benefits from marriage between couples. Potential,...

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Imitative obesity and relative utility

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

. -- Body mass index BMI ; comparisons ; imitation ; happiness ; peer effects ; dieting ; mental health ; well-being ; obesity …

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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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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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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation

Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009

In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...

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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 … demographic variables and income, are held constant. -- Happiness ; aging ; well-being ; GHQ ; cohorts …

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What makes a young entrepreneur?

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 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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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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