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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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Inequality aversion and risk attitudes

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2010

, education, and gender) that may be correlated with both risk attitudes and inequality aversion. -- Happiness ; inequality …

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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel : effects of religiosity, ethnicity, and war

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Romanov, Dimiṭri; … - 2010

vary in religiosity between secular and ultra-orthodox. We find a significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With … expected. -- happiness ; subjective well-being ; financial satisfaction ; Israel ; religion ; immigration ; terrorism …

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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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Income comparisons and non-cognitive skills

Budría, Santiago; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2012

People gain utility from occupying a higher ranked position in the income distribution of the reference group. This paper investigates whether these gains depend on an individual's set of non-cognitive skills. Using the 2000-2008 waves of the German Socioeconomic Panel dataset (SOEP), a...

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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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Subjective well‐being and income : is there any evidence of satiation?

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013

-being ; happiness ; satiation ; basic needs ; Easterlin paradox …

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Relative deprivation in Tanzania

Atsebi, Bédhat Jean-Marc; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2019

This paper examines the importance of relative deprivation in Tanzania, a poor African country, using three waves of the Tanzanian National Panel Survey. We contribute to earlier literature in Africa by controlling for time persistent unobservable individual characteristics (panel data) and by...

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The economic and social determinants of migrants' well-being during the global financial crisis

Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara - 2018

This paper investigates the economic and social determinants affecting the well-being of temporary migrants before, during and after the financial crisis. Exploiting unique panel data which cover migration spells from Tajikistan between 2001 and 2011, we find that migrants earn less but stay...

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