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Adaptation to poverty in long-run panel data

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - 2014

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

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

Clark, Andrew E.; Lee, Tom - 2017

We here use data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) to provide one of the first analyses of the distal (early-life) and proximal (later-life) correlates of older-life subjective well-being. Unusually, we have two distinct measures of the latter: happiness and eudaimonia. Even after...

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COVID-19, lockdowns and well-being : evidence from Google Trends

Brodeur, Abel; Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; … - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has led many governments to implement lockdowns. While lockdowns may help to contain the spread of the virus, they may result in substantial damage to population well-being. We use Google Trends data to test whether the lockdowns implemented in Europe and America led to...

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Happiness, habits and high rank : comparisons in economic and social life

Clark, Andrew E. - 2011

The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...

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What predicts a successful life? : a life-course model of well-being

Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca - 2013

. Next comes the child's conduct. The least powerful predictor is the child's intellectual development. This has obvious …

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Individual well-being and the allocation of time before and after the Boston marathon terrorist bombing

Clark, Andrew E.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2016

There is a small literature on the economic costs of terrorism. We consider the effects of the Boston marathon bombing on Americans' well-being and time allocation. We exploit data from the American Time Use Survey and Well-Being Module in the days around the terrorist attack to implement a...

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Occupational status and life satisfaction in the UK : the miserable middle?

Georgellis, Yannis; Clark, Andrew E.; Apergis, Emmanuel; … - 2022

We use British panel data to explore the link between occupational status and life satisfaction. We find puzzling evidence, for men, of a U-shaped relationship in cross-section data: employees in medium-status occupations report lower life satisfaction scores than that of employees in either...

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Dimensions of quality of life in Germany : measured by plain text responses in a representative survey (SOEP)

Wagner, Gert G.; Bruemmer, Martin; Glemser, Axel; … - 2017

This paper demonstrates how quality of life can be measured by plain text in a representative survey, the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Furthermore, the paper shows that problems that are difficult to monitor, especially problems like the state of the European Union, long-term...

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When to release the lockdown? : a wellbeing framework for analysing costs and benefits

Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, Andrew E.; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel - 2020

It is politicians who have to decide when to release the lockdown, and in what way. In doing so, they have to balance many considerations (as with any decision). Often the different considerations appear incommensurable so that only the roughest of judgements can be made. For example, in the...

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Who got the brexit blues? : using a quasi-experiment to show the effect of brexit on subjective wellbeing in the uk

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Plagnol, Anke C.; Frijters, Paul; … - 2017

We use the 2015-2016 waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) to look at subjective wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We find that those reporting a preference for leaving the EU were 0.14 points less satisfied...

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