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Happiness-lost: Did Governments make the right decisions to combat Covid-19?
Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanie; Adhikari, Tamanna - 2020
Amidst the rapid global spread of Covid-19, many governments enforced country-wide lockdowns, with likely severe well-being consequences. The actions by governments triggered a debate on whether the well-being and economic costs of a lockdown surpass the benefits perceived from a lower infection...
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Markov switching models for happiness during a pandemic: The New-Zealand experience
Rossouw, Stephanie; Greyling, Talita; Adhikari, Tamanna; … - 2020
This paper estimates Markov switching models with daily happiness (GNH) data from New Zealand for a period inclusive of the Covid-19 global health pandemic. This helps us understand the dynamics of happiness due to an external shock and provides valuable information about its future evolution....
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A tale of three countries: How did Covid-19 lockdown impact happiness?
Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanie; Adhikari, Tamanna - 2020
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, many governments have implemented lockdown regulations to curb the spread of the virus. Though lockdowns do minimise the physical damage of the virus, there may be substantial damage to population well-being. Using a pooled dataset, this paper analyses...
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Big Data and Happiness
Rossouw, Stephanie; Greyling, Talita - 2020
The pursuit of happiness. What does that mean? Perhaps a more prominent question to ask is, 'how does one know whether people have succeeded in their pursuit'? Survey data, thus far, has served us well in determining where people see themselves on their journey. However, in an everchanging...
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Are Long-Lived Persons Utility Monsters?
Ponthiere, Gregory - 2022
Nozick's "utility monster" - a being who is more efficient than other persons at transforming resources into well-being - is often regarded as deeply impossible, on the ground of the incapacity of a single person to have a life that is better than a large number of other lives. In this article,...
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New Zealand's happiness and COVID-19: a Markov Switching Dynamic Regression Model
Rossouw, Stephanie; Greyling, Talita; Adhikari, Tamanna - 2021
Happiness levels (states) are volatile and often fluctuate between a happy and unhappy state from one day to the next. The reasons for these shifts are mostly unobservable and not predictable. In this paper, we fit a Marko Switching Dynamic Regression Model (MSDR) to better understand the...
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The ugly truth about social welfare payments and households' subjective well-being
Adhikari, Tamanna; Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanie - 2021
Social welfare payments (SWP) were designed with policy priority to transfer revenue to vulnerable groups, thereby addressing poverty and inequality. Previous studies have shown that SWPs alleviate poverty, but investigating their effect on well-being is sparse. We investigate the relationship...
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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 … square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents’ subjective well-being (SWB …) measured with either life satisfaction or depression mood. The effect is channelled by raising their satisfaction with children …
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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 … overall data and then for most different marital statuses. Children are expensive: controlling for financial difficulties … children are the same, with stepchildren commonly having a more negative correlation than children from the current …
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Can Women’s Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India
Anand, Paul; Saxena, Swati; Gonzalez, Rolando; Dang, … - 2019
This paper investigates a women’s self-help group program with more than 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest rural areas of Northern India. The program has four streams of activity in micro-savings, agricultural enterprise training, health and nutrition education, and political...
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