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The Consequences of Abuse, Neglect and Cyber-bullying on the Wellbeing of the Young

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using cross-sectional data files for the United States we show that difficulties experienced in childhood - so-called Adverse Child Experiences (ACE)s - are strongly and significantly associated with mental health in adulthood. Our evidence is taken from eight Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance...

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Underemployment in the US and Europe

Bell, David N.F. - 2018

Large numbers of part-time workers around the world, both those who choose to be part-time and those who are there involuntarily and would prefer a full-time job report they want more hours. Full-timers who say they want to change their hours mostly say they want to reduce them. When recession...

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The Consequences of Chronic Pain in Mid-Life : Evidence from the National Child Development Survey

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using data from all those born in a single week in 1958 in Britain we track the consequences of short pain and chronic pain in mid-life (age 44) on health, wellbeing and labor market outcomes in later life. We examine data taken at age 50 in 2008, when the Great Recession hit and then five years...

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Children, unhappiness and family finances

Blanchflower, David G.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2020 - This version: May 12th 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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The well-being age U-shape effect in Germany is not flat

Blanchflower, David G.; Piper, Alan T. - 2021

Kassenboehmer and DeNew (2012) claim that there is no well-being age U-shape effect for Germany, when controlling for fixed effects and respondent experience and interviewer characteristics in the German Socio-Economic Panel, 1994-2006. We re-estimate with a longer run of years and restrict the...

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International evidence on well-being

Blanchflower, David G. - 2008

; is U-shaped in age and un-trended over time in the USA although they are trended up in a number of EU countries and …

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Money, Sex, and Happiness : An Empirical Study

Blanchflower, David G. - 2004

This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a random sample of 16,000 adult Americans. The paper finds that sexual activity enters strongly positively in happiness equations. Greater income does not buy more sex, nor more sexual...

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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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Wages, Profits and Rent-Sharing

Blanchflower, David G. - 1992

The paper uses CPS data from 1964 to 1985 to test for the existence of rent-sharing in US tabor markets, Using an unbalanced panel from the manufacturing sector, and random-effects and fixed-effects specifications, the paper finds that changes in wages are explained by movements in lagged levels...

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Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA

Blanchflower, David G. - 2000

The standard of living in the industrialized nations has been steadily increasing over the last few decades. Yet some observers wonder whether we are really getting any happier. This paper addresses that question by examining well-being data on 100,000 randomly sampled Americans and Britons from...

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