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Industrial policies, such as infrastructure investments and export tariffs, affect the allocation of labor and incomes across sectors, attracting substantial lobbying efforts by special interest groups. Yet, the link between structural change and lobbying remains underexplored. Using more than...
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nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … vitiates the otherwise positive effect of own-income growth on happiness. Critics of the Paradox mistakenly present the …The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within …
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This chapter summarizes the latest state of the art in economic research on unemployment and subjective well-being. Outcomes covered are general life satisfaction, affective well-being, and mental health. Special attention is paid to empirical evidence as obtained from popular panel data sets....
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people. We also find that more disadvantaged people including poor, rural, female and older people are more likely to be …
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This paper presents empirical evidence that racial diversity and immigrant population at the local level tend to be associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the period 2005-2010. The magnitudes I find suggest that...
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We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects are heterogeneous by gender and marital status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects...
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In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of 'more children, more happiness' by exploiting …
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Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Europe today, yet little is known about the overall effect of its multiple impacts. The analysis suggests natives need not worry. Increasing immigrant population shares have no statistically significant effects on natives' well-being in 28...
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National Happiness (GNH), a country-level index built applying sentiment analysis to data from Twitter. Our aim is to describe …
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vaccination rates. Secondly, we consider if subjective measures, including the level of happiness and different collective … Hemisphere and variables related to COVID-19, vaccines, country characteristics and the level of happiness and collective …, the average temperature, and the happiness levels within countries. It is remarkable how the importance of subjective …
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