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Do More of Those in Misery Suffer from Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness?
Fleche, Sarah - 2015
from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …
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Getting Warmer : Fuel Poverty, Objective and Subjective Health and Well-Being
Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2022
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 … energy policy instruments for uncovering the underlining mechanism via which fuel poverty may get "under the skin" …
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Parents Transmit Happiness Along with Associated Values and Behaviors to Their Children : A Lifelong Happiness Dividend?
Headey, Bruce - 2012
There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for 'children' who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness from parents to children is partly due to transmission of...
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Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
If society's goal is to increase people's feelings of well-being, economic growth in itself will not do the job. Full employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not only in higher income nations but also in countries...
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China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life satisfaction trajectory of the central and eastern European transition countries – a U-shaped swing and a nil or declining trend. There is no evidence of an increase in life...
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Happiness and Economic Growth : The Evidence
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are positively associated. Evidence for this is found in time series data for developed countries, transition countries, and less developed countries, whether analyzed separately or pooled....
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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 Growth the World Over : Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2009
There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately - 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition - and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time series...
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Happiness and Economic Growth : Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2009
Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective well-being (SWB) in 13 developing countries,...
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(Mis-)Predicted Subjective Well-Being Following Life Events
Odermatt, Reto - 2015
The correct prediction of how alternative states of the world affect our lives is a cornerstone of economics. We study how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being when facing major life events. Based on individual panel data, we compare people's forecast of their life...
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