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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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What Women Want (their men to do): Housework and satisfaction in Australian households
Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018
The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further, social norms about how much housework men and women should contribute are likely to influence couples’ housework allocation decisions and satisfaction. Using Australian data...
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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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Mitigating Life Challenges to Subjective Well-being through Civic Engagement: Insights from a Global Perspective
Wu, Fengyu; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2024
This paper investigates the role of civic engagement, an important form of social capital from the supply side, in buffering the adverse effects of challenging life circumstances in three key domains-employment, marriage, and health-on individual subjective well-being, specifically in terms of...
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Exchange rate, remittances and expenditure of foreign-born households: evidence from Australia
Hasan, Syed; Ratna, Nazmun; Shakur, Shamim - 2019
We examined the impact of the depreciation of the Australian dollar (AU$) during 2013-2015 on the expenditure of households with foreign-born members (HFBMs) in Australia. Employing the difference-in-differences method and 2013-2015 Nielson Homescan Panel Survey data, we found that HFBMs spent...
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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 …
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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
Most of the studies on subjective well-being focus on the determinants of absolute life satisfaction or happiness …
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A measure of well-being efficiency based on the World Happiness Report
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
, absence of corruption, and generosity) identified in the World Happiness Reports and apply Data Envelopment Analysis to a …
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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...
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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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