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Work to Live or Live to Work? Unemployment, Happiness, and Culture
Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle - 2011
significantly negative effect on life satisfaction in Switzerland. I furthermore present evidence which confirms to some extent the …
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Transition from Plan to Market, Height and Well-Being
Adserà, Alícia - 2019
Using newly available data, we re-evaluate the impact of transition from plan to market in former communist countries on objective and subjective well-being. We find clear evidence of the high social cost of early transition reforms: cohorts born around the start of transition are shorter than...
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Do Perceptions of Economic Well-Being Predict the Onset of War and Peace?
Swee, Eik - 2019
While economic deprivation is an important determinant of civil conflict, it cannot completely explain the incentives for warfare. In irregular wars, for example, both incumbents and insurgents may employ various tactics to win the hearts and minds of civilians in order to muster territorial...
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Ethnic Diversity and Well-Being
Akay, Alpaslan - 2016
This paper investigates how ethnic diversity, measured by the immigrants' countries of origin, influences the well-being of the host country. Using panel data from Germany for the period 1998 to 2012, we find a positive effect of ethnic diversity on the well-being of German citizens. To...
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Wellbeing Rankings
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022
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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The Gendered Crisis : Livelihoods and Mental Well-Being in India During Covid-19
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari - 2023
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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Getting Warmer : Fuel Poverty, Objective and Subjective Health and Well-Being
Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2022
This paper uses data from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the association between … fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong …
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Income Volatility, Health and Well-Being
Adeline, Amelie - 2019
While there is mounting evidence that large income shocks, e.g. in the form of a job loss, may impact health and mortality, little evidence exist on the potential relationship between sustained income volatility, keeping average lifetime income constant, and health. This paper exploits rich...
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Impacts of Covid-19 on Household Welfare in Tunisia
Kokas, Deeksha; Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys; El Lahga, Abdel … - 2021
COVID-19 is likely to have a large impact on the welfare of Tunisian households. First, some individuals might be more vulnerable to contracting the disease because their living conditions or jobs make them more susceptible to meeting others or practicing social distancing. Lack of adequate...
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Household Finances and Well-Being : An Empirical Analysis of Comparison Effects
Brown, Sarah - 2014
household's monetary financial position on overall life satisfaction and financial well-being, with the latter being measured by … indicate that the household's level of net wealth, assets and debt are important determinants of overall life satisfaction and …This paper explores the importance of the household's financial position for an individual's level of well …
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