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Happy people have children : choice and self-selection into parenthood

Cetre, Sophie; Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2016

There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well-being, with the correlation depending on which countries and populations are considered. We here provide a systematic analysis of this question based on three different datasets:...

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Early-life correlates of later-life well-being : evidence from the Wisconsin longitudinal study

Clark, Andrew E.; Lee, Tom - 2017

latter: happiness and eudaimonia. Even after controlling for proximal covariates, outcomes at age 18 (IQ score, parental …, there are notable differences in the other correlates of happiness and eudaimonia. As such, well-being policy will depend to …

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The importance of sampling frequency for estimates of well-being dynamics

Hoskins, Stephen; Johnston, David; Kunz, Johannes; … - 2024

Using a high-frequency panel survey, we examine the sensitivity of estimated self-reported well-being (SWB) dynamics to using monthly, quarterly, and yearly data. This is an important issue if SWB is to be used to evaluate policy. Results from autoregressive models that account for...

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Economic growth and subjective well-being : reassessing the easterlin paradox

Stevenson, Betsey (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2008

of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a … happiness. Together these findings indicate a clear role for absolute income and a more limited role for relative income … comparisons in determining happiness. -- Happiness ; subjective well-being ; Easterlin Paradox ; life satisfaction ; economic …

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Happiness dynamics with quarterly life event data

Frijters, Paul (contributor); Johnston, David W. (contributor) - 2008

This paper addresses the question of when and to what extent individuals are affected by major positive and negative life events, including changes in financial situation, marital status, death of child or spouse and being a victim of crime. The key advantage of our data is that we are able to...

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Economic satisfaction and income rank in small neighbourhoods

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor); … - 2008

We contribute to the literature on well-being and comparisons by appealing to new Danish data dividing the country up into around 9,000 small neighbourhoods. Administrative data provides us with the income of every person in each of these neighbourhoods. This income information is matched to...

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Work, jobs and well-being across the millennium

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor) - 2009

This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...

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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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Boon or bane? : others' unemployment, well-being and job insecurity

Clark, Andrew E.; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2009

The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this standard result, but then suggest that the appropriate distinction may not be between employment...

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Who compares to whom? : the anatomy of income comparisons in Europe

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2009

they interact the most often. -- Income comparisons ; relative income ; reference groups ; happiness ; redistribution …

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