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This study examines the effects of social comparison with a wide range of reference groups on the life satisfaction of Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands. For two sets of ethnic and life-domain reference groups, results are obtained that deviate from the findings of recent studies and that...
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reductions in work hours can increase workers' happiness. …
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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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Two recent papers argue that many results based on ordinal reports of happiness can be reversed with suitable monotonic … increasing transformations of the associated happiness scale (Bond and Lang 2019; Schröder and Yitzhaki 2017). If true, empirical … happiness. We derive a simple test of whether reversals are possible by relabelling the scores of reported happiness and deduce …
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Richer people are happier than poorer people, but when a country becomes richer over time, its people do not become happier. This seemingly contradictory pair of findings of Richard Easterlin has be-come famous as the Easterlin Paradox. However, it was met with counterevidence. To shed more...
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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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their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases …. Assuming that lockdowns constrain married people to spend time solely with their spouses, simulations show that their happiness … this inference. Simulations demonstrate clearly that, assuming lockdowns impose solitude on singles, their happiness was …
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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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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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A central finding in happiness research is that a person's income relative to the average income in her social …
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