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Happy hosts? : international tourist arrivals and residents' subjective well-being in Europe

Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2016

of international tourist arrivals on the subjective well-being – happiness and life satisfaction – of residents in … satisfaction) than its affective component (happiness). …

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Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being : evidence from rural Bangladesh

Bhuiyan, Muhammad Faress; Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2018

Microcredit has long been hailed as a powerful tool to promote livelihoods and reduce poverty through entrepreneurship. However, its impacts on people's subjective well-being remain underexplored. We present a unified theoretical framework for analyzing the effect of microcredit-enabled...

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Emigration, remittances and the subjective well-being of those staying behind

Ivlevs, Artjoms; Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - 2018

Despite growing academic and policy interest in the subjective well-being consequences of emigration for those left behind, existing studies have focused on single origin countries or specific world regions. Our study is the first to offer a global perspective on the well-being consequences of...

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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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Status, happiness, and relative income

Beath, John (contributor); FitzRoy, Felix R. (contributor) - 2007

inconsistent with the extensive empirical literature on happiness and well-being. The alternative approach to consumption … income, working time and happiness"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site …

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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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Relative income, redistribution and well-being

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A. - 2010

income ; redistribution ; basic income ; unemployment benefits ; happiness ; well-being …

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Happy moves? : assessing the link between life satisfaction and emigration intentions

Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2015

the probability of reporting intentions to migrate. The findings of this paper raise concerns about possible 'happiness …

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Testing the tunnel effect : comparison, age and happiness in UK and German panels

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A.; Steinhardt, Max … - 2013

In contrast to previous results combining all ages we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the … sample, when controlling for fixed effects, and time-in-panel, and with flexible, age-group dummies. The residual age-happiness …

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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013

; happiness ; race …

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