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Female suicide and the concept of the midlife crisis

Oswald, Andrew J.; Tohamy, Ahmed - 2017

-being literature and a matching hill-shape in especially female suicide risk (evident in 28 countries and visible in the United States …

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Happy pills? : mental health effects of the dramatic increase of antidepressant use

Masiero, Giuliano; Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Steinbach, Sandro - 2020

Despite the growing skepticism regarding the efficacy of antidepressants, global consumption has increased at an unprecedented rate with unknown implications for society. We estimate the causal effect of this increase on mental health outcomes using an instrumental variable strategy that...

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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015

This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...

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Relative income and happiness : an Experiment

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Houser, Daniel; Diaz, Lina - 2018

John Stuart Mill claimed that "men do not desire merely to be rich, but richer than other men." Do people desire to be richer than others? Or is it that people desire favorable comparisons to others more generally, and being richer is merely a proxy for this ineffable relativity? We conduct an...

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Climbing up ladders and sliding down snakes : an empirical assessment of the effect of social mobility on subjective wellbeing

Dolan, Paul; Lordan, Grace - 2019

. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we consider both relative and absolute … movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is a significant predictor of life satisfaction and mental health …

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

Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2015

attracting and retaining happy and life-satisfied migrants. This paper studies the link between life satisfaction and one … life satisfaction and emigration intentions: it is the most and the least life-satisfied people who are the most likely to … institutional quality. The instrumental variable results suggest that higher levels of life satisfaction have a positive effect on …

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(Mis-)predicted subjective well-being following life events

Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2015

data, we compare people's forecast of their life satisfaction in five years' time to their actual realisations later on …

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Happiness and work

Krause, Annabelle - 2014

investigates the effect of job loss and becoming unemployed, another field of study focuses on the determinants of job satisfaction … evolving around employment conditions, self-employment, and potential public sector satisfaction premiums. A smaller part of …

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Paradox lost?

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2016

Or Paradox Regained? The answer is Paradox Regained. New data confirm that for countries worldwide long-term trends in happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a different conclusion, aside from problems of data...

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Time, income and subjective wellbeing - 20 years of interdependent multidimensional polarization in Germany

Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2021

Society drifts apart in many dimensions. Economists focus on income of the poor and rich and the distribution of income but a broader spectrum of dimensions is required to draw the picture of multiple facets of individual life. In our study of multidimensional polarization we extend the income...

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