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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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The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2003

Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of the costliness of adopting and maintaining a specific identity. These models of racial and ethnic identity recognize that race and ethnicity is potentially endogenous because...

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Peer Effects in the Classroom : Learning from Gender and Race Variation

Hoxby, Caroline - 2000

Peer effects are potentially important for understanding the optimal organization of schools, jobs, and neighborhoods, but finding evidence is difficult because people are selected into peer groups based, in part, on their unobservable characteristics. I identify the effects of peers whom a...

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Happiness at Different Ages : The Social Context Matters

Helliwell, John F. - 2018

highly significant interactions. Results are presented for life evaluations and (in some surveys) for happiness yesterday, in …

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Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth

Arrow, Kenneth J. - 2010

We develop a consistent and comprehensive theoretical framework for assessing whether economic growth is compatible with sustaining well-being over time. The framework focuses on whether a comprehensive measure of wealth - one that accounts for natural capital and human capital as well as...

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What Good Is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption

Finkelstein, Amy - 2008

We estimate how the marginal utility of consumption varies with health. To do so, we develop a simple model in which the impact of health on the marginal utility of consumption can be estimated from data on permanent income, health, and utility proxies. We estimate the model using the Health and...

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