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Anger is an important driver in shaping economic activities, particularly in instances that involve strategic … interactions between individuals. Here we test whether anger impairs the capacity to think strategically, and we analyze the … externally induce anger to a subgroup of subjects following a standard procedure that we verify by using a novel method of text …
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Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism …: their personal financial situation. Specifically, it asks if populist anti-elite rhetoric has a causal influence on anger …-conscious emotions into anger. The argument is tested with original survey data from France, Germany, and the United States. The …
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The idea that humans - especially females - are prone to some form of 'midlife crisis' has typically been viewed with extreme skepticism by social scientists. We point out the potential equivalence between an age U-shape in a new well-being literature and a matching hill-shape in especially...
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This paper documents a longitudinal crisis of midlife among the inhabitants of rich nations. Yet middle-aged citizens in our data sets are close to their peak earnings, have typically experienced little or no illness, reside in some of the safest countries in the world, and live in the most...
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A large literature in behavioral and social sciences has found that human wellbeing follows a U-shape over age. Some theories have assumed that the U-shape is caused by unmet expectations that are felt painfully in midlife but beneficially abandoned and experienced with less regret during old...
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applies each to large cross-sections and compares the patterns of life-satisfaction and happiness. Using the first method …
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elderly population in the rapidly aging Asian societies. However, this has also raised concern over the reinforcement of … cultural preferences for sons as a source of old-age security. This paper, therefore, revisits the determinants of happiness in … old age by investigating the role of adult children's gender in the context of Thailand, an aging Asian country with no …
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women as evidenced by their average values for happiness, tiredness, and stress, their predicted values for the same three …
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Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although many studies have documented...
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If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
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