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New Evidence on Trust and Well-being
Helliwell, John F. - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456227
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How Much is Social Capital Worth?
Helliwell, John F. - 2010
This paper uses data from global and Canadian surveys data to estimate the powerful linkages between social connections, their related social identities, and subjective well-being. Our explanatory variables include several measures of the extent and frequency of use of social networks, combined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462628
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Trust and Well-being
Helliwell, John F. - 2010
Our results reveal sufficiently strong linkages between trust and well-being to support much more study of how trust can be built and maintained, or repaired where it has been damaged. We therefore use data from the Canadian GSS17 to analyze personal and neighbourhood characteristics, including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462741
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The Welfare Costs of Well-being Inequality
Goff, Leonard - 2016
happiness differences are related to differences in inequality. A major concern, however, is spurious correlation due to the … comprehensive measure of inequality that subsumes the many and various component forms of inequality in particular domains. The … dispersion, (ii) that it is stronger in the subset of individuals who care most about inequality, and (iii) that it extends to …
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