Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 218
Cover Image
COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends
Brodeur, Abel; Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; … - 2020
sadness, while searches for stress, suicide and divorce on the contrary fell. Our results suggest that people's mental health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012217730
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206806
Cover Image
Are you Puffing your Children's Future Away? Energy Poverty and Childhood Exposure to Passive Smoking
Prakash, Kushneel; Churchill, Sefa Awaworyi; Smyth, Russell - 2022
regarded as being plausibly causal. We identify health, human capital, labour market outcomes and non-cognitive traits as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168950
Cover Image
Bottom Incomes and the Measurement of Poverty: A Brief Assessment of the Literature
Ceriani, Lidia; Hlasny, Vladimir; Verme, Paolo - 2021
The paper discusses the main issues related to negative and zero incomes that are relevant for the measurement of poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the sources and structure of these incomes, outlines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604324
Cover Image
Americans’ Responses to Terrorism and Mass-Shooting: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey and Well-Being Module
Clark, Andrew; Stancanelli, Elena - 2017
A small but significant literature concludes that terrorism impacts the economy, although the impact of mass-shooting has not yet been addressed by economists. We compare the economic effects of two tragedies: the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing and the 2012 Sandy Hook School Shooting. Fatal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011617160
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011655640
Cover Image
Is Happiness U-shaped Everywhere? Age and Subjective Well-being in 145 Countries
Blanchflower, David G. - 2020
A large empirical literature has debated the U-shaped happiness-age curve. This paper re-examines the relationship between various measures of well-being and age in one hundred and forty-five countries, including one hundred and nine developing countries, controlling for education, marital and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206809
Cover Image
Crossing Boundaries and Time: An Exploration of Time Allocation, Emotional Well-Being of Immigrants in the United States
Coniglio, Nicola Daniele; Hoxhaj, Rezart; Lagravinese, … - 2023
This study investigates the emotional experiences of immigrants and native- born individuals in the United States, exploring the relationship between daily activities and feelings of happiness, stress, and meaningfulness. We analyze the entire range of daily activities and their durations,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014310781
Cover Image
A year of pandemic: levels, changes and validity of well-being data from Twitter. Evidence from ten countries
Sarracino, Francesco; Greyling, Talita; O'Connor, Kelsey; … - 2021
In this article we describe how well-being changed during 2020 in ten countries, namely Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, South Africa, and Spain. Our measure of well-being is the Gross National Happiness (GNH), a country-level index built...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012506437
Cover Image
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
, health and nutrition education, and political participation. The paper considers whether there is any evidence that program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098930