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A measure of well-being efficiency based on the World Happiness Report
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
We propose a measure of well-being efficiency to assess countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective well-being (Cantril ladder). We use the six inputs (real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity) identified in...
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The economics of happiness
Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - 2020
Welfare and well-being have traditionally been gauged by using income and employment statistics, life expectancy, and ….g., life satisfaction), and feelings of having a life purpose. Both businesses and policymakers now increasingly make decisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265247
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Happiness in the air : how does a dirty sky affect mental health and subjective well-being?
Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xiaobo; Chen, Xi - 2017
life satisfaction has little to do with the immediate air quality. Our results shed light on air pollution as an important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112312
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Life satisfaction, pro-activity, and employment
Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Yilmaz, Levent - 2021
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper investigates how pro-active time-use (e.g., in sports/arts/socializing) relates to subjective well-being of the unemployed and their probability of finding a new job. Allowing for a variety of socio-demographic and...
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New Zealand's happiness and COVID-19 : a Markov Switching Dynamic Regression Model
Rossouw, Stephanie; Greyling, Talita; Adhikari, Tamanna - 2021
Happiness levels (states) are volatile and often fluctuate between a happy and unhappy state from one day to the next. The reasons for these shifts are mostly unobservable and not predictable. In this paper, we fit a Marko Switching Dynamic Regression Model (MSDR) to better understand the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012512277
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Do quarantine experiences and attitudes towards COVID-19 affect the distribution of psychological outcomes in China? : a quantile regression analysis
Lu, Haiyang; Nie, Peng; Qian, Long - 2020
While quarantine has become a widely used control measure during the outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), empirical research on whether and to what extent quarantine and attitudes towards COVID-19 influence psychological outcomes is scant. Using a cross-sectional online...
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The mental health effects of retirement
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019
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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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 … metrics were able to predict the Great Recession and the economic slowdown in Europe just prior to the COVID pandemic. …
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Perceived income inequality and subjective social status in Europe
Hajdu, Gábor - 2021
This paper analyzes how perceived income inequality is associated with subjective well-being. Using four waves of the "Social Inequality" module of the International Social Survey Programme, I show that the higher the level of perceived income inequality is, the lower the individual's perception...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616141
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Younger and dissatisfied? : relative age and life-satisfaction in adolescence
Fumarco, Luca; Baert, Stijn - 2018
This is the first study to investigate whether age gaps between classmates (that is, relative age) affect life-satisfaction …) survey. We find evidence that relative age negatively impacts adolescents' life-satisfaction. A twelve-month age gap … decreases life-satisfaction, rated on a 0-10 scale, by 0.3 points. This negative effect is consistent across countries. Finally …
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