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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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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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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013

; happiness ; race …

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Towards a theory of life satisfaction accounting for stability, change and volatility in 25-year life trajectories in Germany

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - 2016

An adequate theory of Life Satisfaction (LS) needs to take account of both factors that tend to stabilise LS and those that change it. The most widely accepted theory in psychology - setpoint theory - focussed solely on stability. That theory is now regarded as inadequate since several national...

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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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Money doesn't buy happiness... or does it? : A reconsideration based on the combined effects of wealth, income and consumption

Headey, Bruce (contributor); Muffels, Ruud J. A. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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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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Parents transmit happiness along with associated values and behaviors to their children : a lifelong happiness dividend?

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2012

There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for 'children' who have … grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness … from parents to children is partly due to transmission of values and behaviors known to be associated with happiness …

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Choices which change life satisfaction : revising SWB theory to account for change

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010

Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner’s personality, hours of work,...

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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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