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The Easterlin Paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; O’Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020
The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … vitiates the otherwise positive effect of own-income growth on happiness. Critics of the Paradox mistakenly present the …
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Feeling Richer and Happier? Self-Perceived Economic Welfare and Life Satisfaction: Evidence of 'Easterlin Paradox' from Russian Longitudinal Data
Jin, Olivia S.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2020
. This study aims to provide a possible explanation of the ‘Easterlin Paradox a phenomenon in which individuals ’happiness … increases with income, yet an increase in income of the whole society does not necessarily increase the happiness of all (1974 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012253980
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Double-edged sword: Persistent effects of Communism on life satisfaction
Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2021
Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives enjoyed status and privileges, while secret police informants were often coerced to work clandestinely and gather compromising materials about friends, colleagues, and neighbors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012614669
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The Long-Lasting Effects of Family and Childhood on Adult Wellbeing: Evidence from British Cohort Data
Flèche, Sarah; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2018
To what extent do childhood experiences continue to affect adult wellbeing over the life course? Previous work on this link has been carried out either at one particular adult age or for some average over adulthood. We here use two British birth-cohort datasets (the 1958 NCDS and the 1970 BCS)...
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Racial diversity, immigrants and the well-being of residents: Evidence from U.S. counties
Kuroki, Masanori - 2017
This paper presents empirical evidence that racial diversity and immigrant population at the local level tend to be associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the period 2005-2010. The magnitudes I find suggest that...
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The effect of immigration on natives’ well-being in the European Union
O’Connor, Kelsey J. - 2019
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Europe today, yet little is known about the overall effect of its multiple impacts. The analysis suggests natives need not worry. Increasing immigrant population shares have no statistically significant effects on natives’ well-being in 28...
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‘More Children, More Happiness?’: New Evidence from Elderly Parents in China
Gao, Yanyan; Qu, Zhaopeng - 2019
In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of ‘more children, more happiness’ by exploiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012027851
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Unemployment and subjective well-being
Suppa, Nicolai - 2021
This chapter summarizes the latest state of the art in economic research on unemployment and subjective well-being. Outcomes covered are general life satisfaction, affective well-being, and mental health. Special attention is paid to empirical evidence as obtained from popular panel data sets....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417017
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Delving into the eye of the cyclone to quantify the cascading impacts of natural disasters on life satisfaction
Mitrou, Francis - 2024
The catastrophic effects of natural disasters on social and economic systems are well-documented; however, their impacts on individual life satisfaction remain insufficiently understood. This study pioneers a causal analysis of cyclones' impacts on Australians' life satisfaction, using local...
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Is immigration good for Europe? Long-run evidence using comprehensive well-being
2024
The immigrant (foreign-born) population increased by 32 million in total across 37 European countries from 1990 to 2019. Much of this movement was from east to west. Indeed, both the total and foreign-born populations declined in the former Eastern Bloc over this period. Such demographic shifts...
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