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The Easterlin Paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020
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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Unemployment and subjective well-being
Suppa, Nicolai - 2021
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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Self-employment and subjective well-being
Binder, Martin; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin - 2021
Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many individuals want to become self-employed due to the autonomy and exibility it brings. Using "subjective well-being" as a broad summary measure that evaluates an individual's experience of being self-employed, the...
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Child gender and subjective well-being of older parents in China
Lei, Lei; Wu, Fengyu; Xia, Yiming - 2023
In many societies, parents prefer sons over daughters, but the well-being effects of child gender, especially in later life, are less studied. Using the latest two waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), this paper evaluates the impacts of having daughters on older...
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Mitigating life challenges to subjective well-being through civic engagement : insights from a global perspective
Wu, Fengyu; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2024
This paper investigates the role of civic engagement, an important form of social capital from the supply side, in buffering the adverse effects of challenging life circumstances in three key domains-employment, marriage, and health-on individual subjective well-being, specifically in terms of...
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Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people to be unhappy? : evidence from a six-country survey
Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2021
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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A measure of well-being efficiency based on the World Happiness Report
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
, absence of corruption, and generosity) identified in the World Happiness Reports and apply Data Envelopment Analysis to a …
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Mental health consequences of working from home during the pandemic
Kim, Jun Hyung; Koh, Yu Kyung; Park, Jinseong - 2022
This paper examines the effects of working from home on mental health, with particular attention to the role of home environments. Using unique real time survey data from South Korea collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, we find that working from home negatively affects the mental health of...
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Mental health consequences of working from home during the pandemic
Kim, Jun Hyung; Koh, Yu Kyung; Park, Jinseong - 2021
This paper examines the effects of working from home on mental health, using unique real time survey data from South Korea collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that working from home negatively affects the mental health of workers in the first half of 2020. Furthermore, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650393
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The ugly truth about social welfare payments and households' subjective well-being
Adhikari, Tamanna; Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanie - 2021
and analyse it across household income quintiles. We use the National Income Dynamics Study dataset, which is … probit regressions and a quasi-experimental technique. We find that the highest household income quintiles claim SWPs meant …
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