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expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are …
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A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
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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 … positive relation of happiness to income in cross-section data or in short-term time fluctuations as contradicting the nil …
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-being. Outcomes covered are general life satisfaction, affective well-being, and mental health. Special attention is paid to empirical …. Topics covered include the estimation of non-pecuniary costs of unemployment, unemployment over time, the role of others …
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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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