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income, net affect and life satisfaction are presented, and adjusted for attenuation bias due to measurement error. Life … satisfaction is found to correlate much more strongly with income than does net affect. Components of affect that are more person …This paper studies the test-retest reliability of a standard self-reported life satisfaction measure and of affect …
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The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … show that adolescents and young adults who report higher life satisfaction or positive affect grow up to earn significantly … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is …
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The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
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ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and … the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the …
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after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and …, larger and more robust to specification for men than for women. With the exception of cognitive disability and poverty for …
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There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …
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factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age …
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determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the … the different reports for the estimated income gradient. We find that respondents frequently evaluate children differently … and while the sign of the income gradient is in the same direction across respondents, systematic differences in …
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detailed survey and interviewer data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, considering a broad set of income and wealth outcomes. …
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Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses … the level of satisfaction with political and economic institutions and with the education and health systems, whereas the …
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