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Youth Life Satisfaction: A Review of the Literature

Proctor, Carmel; Linley, P.; Maltby, John - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 10 (2009) 5, pp. 583-630

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Strengths Use as a Predictor of Well-Being and Health-Related Quality of Life

Proctor, Carmel; Maltby, John; Linley, P. - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 12 (2011) 1, pp. 153-169

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008925177

The measurement of time and income poverty

Zacharias, Ajit - 2011

Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses … of the assumption and explored alternative methods to account for time deficits in the measurement of poverty. I … individual approaches. I also propose a two-dimensional, time-income poverty measure that accounts for intrahousehold disparities …

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Net government expenditures and the economic well-being of the elderly in the United States, 1989 - 2001

Kum, Hyunsub; Wolff, Edward N.; Zacharias, Ajit - 2006

We examine the economic well-being of the elderly, using the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW). Compared to the conventional measures of income, the LIMEW is a comprehensive measure that incorporates broader definitions of income from wealth, government expenditures, and...

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The Great Recession and racial inequality: Evidence from measures of economic well-being

Masterson, Thomas; Zacharias, Ajit; Rios-Avila, Fernando; … - 2017

The Great Recession had a tremendous impact on low-income Americans, in particular black and Latino Americans. The losses in terms of employment and earnings are matched only by the losses in terms of real wealth. In many ways, however, these losses are merely a continuation of trends that have...

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Pleasure: An Initial Exploration

Biswas-Diener, Robert; Linley, P.; Dovey, Helen; … - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 16 (2015) 2, pp. 313-332

Pleasure has long been implicated as an important aspect of happiness. Unfortunately, the study of pleasure in the science of happiness has largely been relegated to positive affective states. While pleasure and affect are difficult to disentangle there is, we argue, utility in examining...

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