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Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

wellbeing metrics - happiness and life satisfaction - is less clear cut. Differences vary over time, location, and with model … in happiness data regarding whether males are happier than females but find little variation by month in unhappiness data … reveal that women's happiness was more adversely affected by the COVID shock than men's, but also that women's happiness …

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Wellbeing Rankings

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

reported in the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index …

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The Declining Mental Health Of The Young And The Global Disappearance Of The Hump Shape In Age In Unhappiness

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Xu, Xiaowei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Across many studies subjective well-being follows a U-shape in age, declining until people reach middle-age, only to rebound subsequently. Ill-being follows a mirror-imaged hump-shape. But this empirical regularity has been replaced by a monotonic decrease in illbeing by age. The reason for the...

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Taking the Pulse of Nations : a Biometric Measure of Well-being

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

A growing literature identifies associations between subjective and biometric indicators of wellbeing. These associations, together with the ability of subjective wellbeing (SWB) metrics to predict health and behavioral outcomes, have spawned increasing interest in SWB as an important concept in...

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Now Unions Increase Job Satisfaction and Well-being

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

wellbeing including life satisfaction and happiness, several macro variables and various measures of trust. Union members are …

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Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-being Reducing?

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Happiness Report from the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last … has been rising in the last decade. However, so too have negative affect in Europe and despair in the USA …

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Wellbeing, Expectations and Unemployment in Europe

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We find expectations are more sensitive to economic growth than traditional wellbeing metrics. We examine Eurobarometer micro data from 1973-2023 on movements in life satisfaction along with data from 1995-2022 on five expectations variables on and individual's life and their financial and job...

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The Gender Well-being Gap

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

endogenous variables. However, when one examines the three 'global' wellbeing metrics - happiness, life satisfaction and Cantril …

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Unions Increase Job Satisfaction in the United States

Artz, Benjamin; Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We revisit the well-known negative association between union coverage and individuals' job satisfaction in the United States, first identified over forty years ago. We find the association has flipped since the Great Recession such that union workers are now more satisfied than their non-union...

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The Economics of Walking About and Predicting US Downturns

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Economic shocks are notoriously difficult to predict but recent research suggests qualitative metrics about economic actors' expectations are predictive of downturns. We show consumer expectations indices from both the Conference Board and the University of Michigan predict economic downturns up...

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