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a lack of a structure in daily life. Unlike life satisfaction, unemployment leaves affective well-being mostly … importance of the social norms to work and be self-reliant for the life satisfaction of the unemployed, as well as by studies … showing the positive life satisfaction effect of retirement on unemployed workers. Based on this strong evidence for identity …
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A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
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decisions and satisfaction. Using Australian data spanning the years 2001-2014, we employ a two-stage estimation procedure to … examine how deviations from housework norms relate to couples’ satisfaction. We find that satisfaction is negatively affected … by predicted housework time, and that women’s satisfaction, but not men’s, is robustly affected by their partners …
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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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that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher …
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This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the existence of the EU. Against all measures of success, the current public debate seems to suggest that the political consensus that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes...
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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...
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Subjective well-being (SWB) data is increasingly used to perform welfare analyses. In- terpreted as 'experienced utility', SWB has recently been compared to 'decision utility' using specific experiments, most often based on stated preferences. Results point to an overall congruence between these...
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life satisfaction has little to do with the immediate air quality. Our results shed light on air pollution as an important …
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associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the … (approximately one-half of a standard deviation) is associated with 0.006 and 0.007 points reduction in life satisfaction on a four … (approximately two standard deviations) is associated with 0.009 and 0.021 points reduction in life satisfaction for White men and …
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