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Life satisfaction, subjective wealth, and adaptation to vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya; Lokshin, Michael - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012174903
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War and social attitudes
Child, Travers Barclay; Nikolova, Elena - 2018
We study the long-run effects of conflict on social attitudes, with World War II in Central and Eastern Europe as our setting. Much of earlier work has relied on selfreported measures of victimization, which are prone to endogenous misreporting. With our own survey-based measure, we replicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151292
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Human values and selection into supervisory positions : evidence from nine European countries
Hazans, Mihails; Masso, Jaan; Maurseth, Per Botolf - 2023
Do employees with supervisory responsibilities differ from other workers in terms of human values, especially those potentially affecting the quality and efficiency of supervision? This paper uses data from rounds 7-9 of the European Social Survey to examine the selection of employees into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446095
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Coronagraben in Switzerland : culture and social distancing in times of COVID-19
Deopa, Neha; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe - 2021
Social distancing measures help contain the spread of COVID-19 but the actual compliance has varied substantially across space and time. We ask whether cultural differences underlie this heterogeneity using mobility data across Switzerland between February and December 2020. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549091
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Family social norms and child labor
Katav-Herz, Shirit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2021
Child labor is a widespread phenomenon and therefore is of interest to both researchers and policy makers. Various reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703241
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Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?
Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018
Using Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan's (2015) original data, we find that female breadwinning is significantly associated with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In more recent US and Australian data, female breadwinning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129779
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What women want (their men to do) : housework and satisfaction in Australian households
Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018
decisions and satisfaction. Using Australian data spanning the years 2001-2014, we employ a two-stage estimation procedure to … examine how deviations from housework norms relate to couples' satisfaction. We find that satisfaction is negatively affected … by predicted housework time, and that women's satisfaction, but not men's, is robustly affected by their partners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131046
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Family matters: involuntary parental unemployment during childhood and subjective wellbeing later in life
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris N. - 2018
life satisfaction. Using German household panel data, we find that parental unemployment induced by plant closures and … experienced during early (0-5 years) and late (11-15 years) childhood leads to lower life satisfaction at ages 18-31. Nevertheless …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131231
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The long-lasting effects of family and childhood on adult wellbeing : evidence from British cohort data
Fleche, Sarah; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2018 - This version: February 2018
adult outcomes, including life satisfaction. We find that the effects of many aspects of childhood do not fade away over … adult life satisfaction at all ages. Of these, emotional health is the strongest. Childhood cognitive performance is more … important than good conduct in explaining adult life satisfaction in the earlier NCDS cohort, whereas this ranking is inverted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131233
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Residential satisfaction for a continuum of households : evidence from European countries
Borgoni, Riccardo; Michelangeli, Alessandra; Pirola, … - 2018
Residential satisfaction depends on housing and neighborhood conditions in addition to housing cost affordability. To … effect of drivers of residential satisfaction change on continuous according to households' income. We apply our methodology … to investigate residential satisfaction in 23 European countries using 2012 EU-SILC module on housing conditions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131242