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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.; Morgan, Robson; Switek, Malgorzata; … - 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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Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023

the generosity of welfare state programs— increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … social capital, improve the environment, expand welfare state programs. Each of these has point-of-time (cross …-series evidence that supports the importance of welfare state policies. …

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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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Three Revolutions of the Modern Era

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2019

The emergence and evolution of modern science since the 17th century has led to three major breakthroughs in the human condition. The first, the Industrial Revolution, started in the late 18th century and is based chiefly on developments associated with the rise of the natural sciences. The...

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Building a Better Theory of Well-Being

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2003

What do social surveys of life cycle experience tell us about the determinants of subjective well-being? First, that the psychologists? setpoint model is wrong. Life events in the nonpecuniary domain, such as marriage, divorce, and physical disability, have a lasting effect on well-being, and do...

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Lost in transition: life satisfaction on the road to capitalism

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2008

In the transition from socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe life satisfaction has followed the V-shaped pattern of GDP but failed to recover commensurately. In general, increased satisfaction with material living levels has occurred at the expense of decreased satisfaction with work,...

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Happiness and growth the world over: time series evidence on the happiness-income paradox

Easterlin, Richard A.; Angelescu, Laura - 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.; Sawangfa, Onnicha - 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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The happiness-income paradox revisited

Easterlin, Richard A.; Angelescu McVey, Laura; Switek, … - 2011

The striking thing about the happiness-income paradox is that over the long-term - usually a period of 10 y or more - happiness does not increase as a country's income rises. Heretofore the evidence for this was limited to developed countries. This article presents evidence that the long term...

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