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Sometimes your best just ain't good enough: The worldwide evidence on subjective well-being efficiency
Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2020
nations efficiently transform their endowments (income, education, and health) into subjective well- being and which factors …
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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 for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point...
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A measure of well-being efficiency based on the World Happiness Report
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
We propose a measure of well-being efficiency to assess countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective well-being (Cantril ladder). We use the six inputs (real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity) identified in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093093
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Neo-humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world
Sarracino, Francesco; O’Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021
, which in turn positively affects productivity and health, among other behavioral outcomes, and thereby instills a virtuous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501713
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Cultural Norms and Women's Health: Implications of the Practice of Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal
Kumar, Rahul; Maity, Bipasha - 2021
We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women … persistent negative implications on women's physical and mental health that is not just limited to the time of menstruation …. ****** Please cite the published version: Rahul Kumar and Bipasha Maity (2022), "Cultural norms and women's health: Implications of …
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The Perceived Well-being and Health Costs of Exiting Self-Employment
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris; Popova, Olga - 2020
We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i … physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are largely …
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Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?
Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018
Using Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan’s (2015) original data, we find that female breadwinning is significantly associated with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In more recent US and Australian data, female...
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Marriage versus Cohabitation: How Specialization and Time Use Differ by Relationship Type
Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023
Relationships have changed dramatically in the last fifty years. Fewer couples are marrying, more are cohabiting. Reasons for this shift abound, but the shift may have consequences of its own. A number of models predict that those cohabiting will specialize less than those marrying. Panel data...
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Back to Bentham, Should We? Large-Scale Comparison of Experienced versus Decision Utility
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier B.; Jara, H. Xavier - 2017
factors (health and labor market constraints, 'focusing illusion', aspirations). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630720
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Children, Unhappiness and Family Finances
Blanchflower, David G.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2020
The common finding of a zero or negative correlation between the presence of children and parental well-being continues to generate research interest. We here consider international data, including well over one million observations on Europeans from eleven years of Eurobarometer surveys, and in...
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