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Krause, Peter - 2015

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Honey, I got fired! : a longitudinal dyadic analysis of the effect of unemployment on life satisfaction in couples

Luhmann, Maike; Weiss, Pola; Hosoya, Georg; Eid, Michael - 2014

Previous research on unemployment and life satisfaction has focused on the effects of unemployment on individuals but neglected the effects on their partners. In the present study, we used dyadic multilevel models to analyze longitudinal data from 2,973 couples selected from a German...

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Does the choice of well-being measure matter empirically? : an illustration with German data

Decancq, Koen; Neumann, Dirk - 2014

We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the...

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Zukunftsangst! : fear of (and hope for) the future and its impact on life satisfaction

Piper, Alan - 2014

The thoughts that an individual has about the future contribute substantially to their life satisfaction in a positive or negative direction. This is a result found via five different methods, some of which control for personality and disposition and the potential endogeneity of thoughts and...

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Life satisfaction, subjective wealth, and adaptation to vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya; Lokshin, Michael - 2020

We offer the first study on vulnerability adaptation to subjective well-being, using rich panel data over the past two decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer vulnerability spells being associated with more negative...

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Do quarantine experiences and attitudes towards COVID-19 affect the distribution of psychological outcomes in China? : a quantile regression analysis

Lu, Haiyang; Nie, Peng; Qian, Long - 2020

depression but an increase in happiness. Such effects are stronger in the upper distribution of depression and the median of … happiness. We also discern that individuals with severe depressive symptoms (or lower levels of happiness) are more susceptible … happiness, by contrast, community-level quarantine discourages happiness, especially in the lower distribution of happiness. …

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Economic downturns and mental wellbeing

Avdic, Daniel; New, Sonja C. de; Kamhöfer, Daniel A. - 2020

We study the impact of the business cycle on mental wellbeing by linking rich German survey data to over a decade of detailed gross domestic product information. Endogeneity concerns are tackled using a shift-share instrumental variables approach in which exposure to macroeconomic ﬂuctuations...

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Does retirement lead to life satisfaction? : causal evidence from fixed effect instrumental variable models

Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis; Taylor, Catherine L.; … - 2020

This paper presents robust evidence that retirement causally improves overall life satisfaction which is subsequently explained by improvements in satisfaction with one’s financial situation, free time, health, and participation in local community activities. Furthermore, while the positive...

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Sleeping patterns and psychological wellbeing : evidence from young adults in the United States

Lalji, Chitwan; Pakrashi, Debayan - 2020

One in every six U.S. adults suffers from mental health problems. Mental illnesses, as measured in disability-adjusted life years, account for nearly 6.2% of the total disease burden worldwide and are considered to be one of the leading causes of death by injury, second only to road accidents....

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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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