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Does joining the EU make you happy? : evidence from Bulgaria and Romania

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016

We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the … life satisfaction in Bulgaria and had a positive but statistically insignificant effect in Romania. One explanation is that … context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern …

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Housing unaffordability and adolescent subjective well-being in China

Nie, Peng; Li, Qiaoge; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2022

Using the 2010-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of housing unaffordability on subjective well-being (SWB) among Chinese adolescents aged 10-15. Using a combined methodology of propensity score matching and fixed effects and instrumental variable...

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Parental child care time, income and subjective well-being : a multidimensional polarization approach for Germany

Merz, Joachim; Peters, Normen - 2019

Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is time which enables and restricts individual activities and is a further brick to a more comprehensive picture of individual well-being. In our study we focus on a prominent part...

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Happiness in old age : the daughter connection

Pataporn Sukontamarn; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; … - 2023

Family and intergenerational relationships are becoming increasingly important as sources of support and care for the 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...

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Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors

Kaiser, Tim; Lusardi, Annamaria; Menkhoff, Lukas; … - 2020

We study the rapidly growing literature on the causal effects of financial education programs in a meta-analysis of 76 randomized experiments with a total sample size of over 160,000 individuals. The evidence shows that financial education programs have, on average, positive causal treatment...

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Are retirement planning tools substitutes or complements to financial capability?

Goda, Gopi Shah; Levy, Matthew; Flaherty Manchester, … - 2022

' retirement-savings decisions. In both conditions, the calculator projects workers' retirement income goal. In the treatment … condition, it also projects retirement income based on defined-contribution savings, prominently displays the gap between …

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Can a mobile-app-based behavioral intervention teach financial skills to youth? : experimental evidence from a financial diaries study

Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Herrera, Alejandro; Prina, … - 2023

effects on financial literacy and awareness of market prices. The probability of saving and savings deposits are not affected …

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Preferences, financial literacy, and economic development

Davoli, Maddalena; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2021

Using data from 74 countries, we uncover important differences in the association between financial literacy and preferences by the level of economic development. We find that patience is only salient in wealthier countries, i.e. countries with their GDP per capita above the sample median. In...

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Culture and adult financial literacy: evidence from the United States

Davoli, Maddalena; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2020

Using a US nationally representative sample of over 6,000 adults from 26 countries of ancestry, we find a strong association between their financial literacy in the US and the financial literacy level in their self-reported country of ancestry. More specifically, if an individual from a country...

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Neo-humanism and COVID-19: opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021

A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...

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