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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 … states of happiness and estimate the duration in these states. In addition, as maximising happiness is a policy priority, we …

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Family matters: involuntary parental unemployment during childhood and subjective wellbeing later in life

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris N. - 2018

We are the first to examine how parental unemployment experienced during early-, mid- and late-childhood affects adult life satisfaction. Using German household panel data, we find that parental unemployment induced by plant closures and experienced during early (0-5 years) and late (11-15...

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Gini who? : the relationship between inequality perceptions and life satisfaction

Marchesi, Daniele; Nikolova, Milena; Angelini, Viola - 2024

Research on the consequences of income inequality on subjective well-being has yielded mixed results, including a lack of a statistically significant correlation. We propose that this inconsistency may arise from the failure to differentiate between perceived and actual income inequality....

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