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Happiness in the lab : what can be learned about subjective well-being from experiments?

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Goff, Sandra H. - 2021

The recent surge in analyses of subjective well-being (SWB) and the economics of happiness using large observational datasets has generated stylized facts about the relationship between SWB and various correlates. Because such studies are mostly concerned with the determinants of SWB, the...

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Delving into the eye of the cyclone to quantify the cascading impacts of natural disasters on life satisfaction

Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis - 2024

The catastrophic effects of natural disasters on social and economic systems are well-documented; however, their impacts on individual life satisfaction remain insufficiently understood. This study pioneers a causal analysis of cyclones' impacts on Australians' life satisfaction, using local...

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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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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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COVID-19, lockdowns and well-being : evidence from Google trends

Brodeur, Abel; Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; … - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has led many governments to implement lockdowns. While lockdowns may help to contain the spread of the virus, they may result in substantial damage to population well-being. We use Google Trends data to test whether the lockdowns implemented in Europe and America led to...

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Happiness-lost : did governments make the rightdecisions 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 apandemic : 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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Big data and happiness

Rossouw, Stephanié; 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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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...

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Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty : a brief assessment of the literature

Ceriani, Lidia; Hlásny, Vladimír; Verme, Paolo - 2021

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …

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