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Life Satisfaction and Grandparenthood : Evidence from a Nationwide Survey

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2011

This paper tests whether there is a potential payoff to grandparenthood in terms of life satisfaction. Using the new nationwide survey for the UK, which consists of over 5,000 grandparents and 6,000 non-grandparents aged 40 and above, and a flexible multiple-index ordered probit model with...

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The Crisis, Policy Reactions and Attitudes to Globalization and Jobs

Bell, David N.F. - 2011

We consider the effects of the financial crisis and subsequent recession on world labour markets. It begins by cataloguing the adverse effects on output of the sudden collapse in demand brought about by the financial crisis in what has come to be called the Great Recession. Next we look at the...

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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being

Layard, Richard - 2013

If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...

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Happiness and Health Care Coverage

Blanchflower, David G. - 2009

In this paper I examine the characteristics of adults who report on whether they have health care coverage and of people who say that they are unable to see a doctor over the preceding year because of the cost. I make use of a unique data set, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a...

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Death, Happiness, and the Calculation of Compensatory Damages

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2007

paper explores how happiness regression equations might be used in tort cases to calculate compensatory damages for …

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Is Well-Being U-Shaped Over the Life Cycle?

Blanchflower, David G. - 2007

We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this …

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Have Econometric Analyses of Happiness Data Been Futile? A Simple Truth About Happiness Scales

Chen, Le‐Yu - 2019

Econometric analyses in the happiness literature typically use subjective well-being (SWB) data to compare the mean of … observed or latent happiness across samples. Recent critiques show that comparing the mean of ordinal data is only valid under … studies in the economics of happiness literature have been futile. In order to salvage some of the prior results and avoid …

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Who Got the Brexit Blues? Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effect of Brexit on Subjective Wellbeing in the UK

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2017

We use the 2015-2016 waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) to look at subjective wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We find that those reporting a preference for leaving the EU were 0.14 points less satisfied...

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Unhappiness and Pain in Modern America : A Review Essay, and Further Evidence, on Carol Graham's Happiness for All?

Blanchflower, David G. - 2017

In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts … citizens have downwardly trended happiness levels. There is, however, one bright side to an otherwise dark story. The happiness …

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The Welfare Implications of Addictive Substances : A Longitudinal Study of Life Satisfaction of Drug Users

Moschion, Julie - 2017

This paper provides an empirical test of the rational addiction model, used in economics to model individuals' consumption of addictive substances, versus the utility misprediction model, used in psychology to explain the discrepancy between people's decision and their subsequent experiences. By...

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