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The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … 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 …
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-being. Outcomes covered are general life satisfaction, affective well-being, and mental health. Special attention is paid to empirical …
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Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people unhappy? In this study, we use a recent survey from China, Japan, South Korea, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States to explore this question. We find a relatively large effect: a one per-mille point increase in the incidence of the COVID-19...
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associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the … (approximately one-half of a standard deviation) is associated with 0.006 and 0.007 points reduction in life satisfaction on a four … (approximately two standard deviations) is associated with 0.009 and 0.021 points reduction in life satisfaction for White men and …
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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 …) measured with either life satisfaction or depression mood. The effect is channelled by raising their satisfaction with children … parents' life satisfaction is heterogenous to sex composition, first-birth gender, and parents' age. Our study provides new …
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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 … consumer satisfaction, and big data, such as Google Trends. Results indicate that sentiment analysis of Tweets an provide …
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The immigrant (foreign-born) population increased by 32 million in total across 37 European countries from 1990 to 2019. Much of this movement was from east to west. Indeed, both the total and foreign-born populations declined in the former Eastern Bloc over this period. Such demographic shifts...
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decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … satisfaction with own economic conditions, work contract, job, pay, and career. Some evidence indicates that despite little … differences between urban and rural areas with life satisfaction, rural areas exhibit a stronger lack of adaptation for subjective …
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