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Income effects on children's life satisfaction : longitudinal evidence for England

Knies, Gundi - 2017

Using longitudinal data for children aged 10-15 years living in England in 2009-2014 we test the hypothesis that income matters for children’s life satisfaction. The results suggest that children are more satisfied with life the more income their family has. Income effects are larger the less...

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Life satisfaction and material well-being of children in the UK

Knies, Gundi - 2012

Life satisfaction is increasingly recognised as a desirable individual outcome. Policy attention with respect to child well-being has focused on improving the financial position of families with children. Using Understanding Society I show that child life satisfaction is not associated with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570749

Life satisfaction, ethnicity and neighbourhoods : is there an effect of neighbourhood ethnic composition on life satisfaction?

Knies, Gundi; Nandi, Alita; Platt, Lucinda - 2014

Using a rich, nationally representative data set with a large sample of minorities and matched small area characteristics, we explore differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in UK. We test the hypothesis that minorities will be less satisfied, which will in part be explained by...

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Working hours, work identity and subjective wellbeing

Bryan, Mark; Nandi, Alita - 2015

Following theories of social and economic identity, we use representative data containing measures of personal identity to investigate the interplay of work identity and hours of work in determining subjective wellbeing (job satisfaction, job-related anxiety and depression, and life...

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Non-response subgroup-tailored weighting : the choice of variables and the set of respondents used to estimate the weighting model

Sadig, Husam - 2014

The use of the logistic regression model to predict the probability of response and create non-response weights is classic. In most cases, the model is estimated using socio-demographic variables and all units in the selected sample. However, substantive analyses are often restricted to a...

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Financial capability, income and psychological wellbeing

Taylor, Mark P.; Jenkins, Stephen; Sacker, Amanda - 2011

We examine whether financial capability has impacts on psychological health independent of income and financial resources more generally using a nationally representative survey. British Household Panel Survey data are used to construct a measure of financial capability, which we relate to...

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International Happiness

Blanchflower, David G. - 2011

This paper describes the findings from a new, and intrinsically interdisciplinary, literature on happiness and human …

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"Beauty is the Promise of Happiness"?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011

We measure the impact of individuals' looks on life satisfaction/happiness. Using five data sets, from the U.S., Canada … beauty. Beauty raises happiness: A one standard-deviation change in beauty generates about 0.10 standard deviations of … additional satisfaction/happiness among men, 0.12 among women. Accounting for a wide variety of covariates, particularly effects …

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Early Maternal Employment and Family Wellbeing

Chatterji, Pinka - 2011

This study uses longitudinal data from the NICHD Study on Early Child Care (SECC) to examine the effects of maternal employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First, we estimate the effects of maternal employment on...

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The Friends Factor : How Students' Social Networks Affect Their Academic Achievement and Well-Being?

Lavy, Victor - 2012

have positive effects on other measures of well-being, including social and overall happiness in school, time allocated for …

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