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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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The economics of walking about and predicting unemployment

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2021

panel on life satisfaction from 1985-2020 from the World Database of Happiness and show that the consumer level fear of …

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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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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 to generate research interest. We here consider international data, including well over one million observations on Europeans from eleven years of Eurobarometer surveys, and in...

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The economics of happiness

Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - 2020

other objective measures. The Economics of Happiness, which is based on people's reports of how their lives are going …-being measures include positive and negative feelings (e.g., momentary experiences of happiness or stress), life evaluations (e … and craft policies based on such measures. This chapter provides an overview of the Happiness Economics approach and …

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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 … in Europe and the United States. The happiness curve seems to be everywhere. …

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