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fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong …
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affect measures - life satisfaction, enjoyment, smiling and being well-rested – and four negative affect variables – pain … ranks lowest - just below South Sudan. The Nordic countries that traditionally rank high using life satisfaction do not rank …
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This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …
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This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points during pandemic relative to pre-pandemic employment, while their...
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Using data drawn from the 2010 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Module, this study examines the relationship between three measures of subjective well-being based on time-use data and an objective measure of well-being. Whereas the measures of affect – net affect and the U-index – are...
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We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses 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)...
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The paper examines the link between workplace disability (WD) and job satisfaction (JS) in Britain using linked data … respondents without disabilities declines with the percentage of respondents with disabilities. Also, workplace disability … sector. The sector may have to re-examine its dealings with issues of workplace disability …
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satisfaction is negative just before the implementation and positive afterward. Last, I find evidence that smokers do not favor the …
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We provide novel evidence on how the COVID-19 global health and economic crisis is affecting overall life satisfaction … and domain-specific satisfaction using data from a monthly longitudinal survey of middle-aged and older Singaporeans …. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we document large declines in overall life satisfaction and domain …
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significantly improved the overall life satisfaction of low-income non-elderly adults. Various sensitivity checks and falsification …
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