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national distribution of happiness. Thus the resilience-increasing feature of social trust reduces well-being inequality by … damaging to those living in trustworthy environments. These results suggest a fresh set of links between trust and inequality …
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countries, we show that prosocial spending is consistently associated with greater happiness. To test for causality, we conduct …, causal impact on happiness. In contrast to traditional economic thought--which places self-interest as the guiding principle …
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Strong versions of the set point hypothesis argue that subjective well-being measures reflect each individual's own personality and that deviations from that set point will tend to be short-lived, rendering them poor measures of the quality of life. International migration provides an excellent...
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Using time-diary data from the U.S. and six wealthy European countries, I demonstrate that non-partnered mothers spend slightly less time performing childcare, but much less time in other household activities than partnered mothers. Unpartnered mothers' total work time--paid work and household...
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By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...
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weekend effects for happiness, laughter, enjoyment and sadness, for both full-time and part-time workers, with significant but …
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channels (including peace and conflict, trust, and inequality) whereby quality of government and happiness are linked. We …This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup … national happiness, but democratic quality is not. We also analyze other quality of government indicators. Confidence in …
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highly significant interactions. Results are presented for life evaluations and (in some surveys) for happiness yesterday, in …
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their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases … happiness may have been increased compared to before the lock-downs; but sufficiently large losses of work time and income … reverse this inference. Simulations demonstrate clearly that, assuming lock-downs impose solitude on singles, their happiness …
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help to restore to economics the breadth of purpose and methods it had two centuries ago, when happiness was considered the …
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