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Happiness Inequality in the United States
Stevenson, Betsey - 2008
-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464427
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Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000 : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Hellerstein, Judith - 2007
We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The evidence indicates that racial and ethnic segregation at the workplace level remained quite pervasive in 2000. At the same time, there was fairly substantial segregation by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465574
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Gender and Underrepresented Minority Differences in Research Funding
Cruz Castro, Laura; Ginther, Donna K.; Sanz Menéndez, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This chapter reviews the data and literature on gender, race and ethnicity differences in research funding in the United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health in the United States and substantially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334326
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The Female Happiness Paradox
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172192
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Happiness and Aging in the United States
Blanchflower, David G. - 2020
The past decade has brought increasing concern, in countries all over the world, of declines in mental health and well-being. Across countries, chronic depression and suicide rates peak in midlife. In the U.S., deaths of despair are most likely to occur in these years, and the patterns are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482362
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Moms' Time - Married or Not
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482535
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What Do Happiness Data Mean? Theory and Survey Evidence
Benjamin, Daniel J.; Guzman, Jakina Debnam; Fleurbaey, Marc - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
, happiness, ladder--and new SWB questions. Respondents put most weight on the present and on themselves--but not enough to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482654
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Unhappy cities
Glaeser, Edward L.; Gottlieb, Joshua D.; Ziv, Oren - In: Journal of labor economics 34 (2016) 2, pp. 129-182
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664531
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Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness : Adjusting to Loss
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533301
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How was the Weekend? How the Social Context Underlies Weekend Effects in Happiness and other Emotions for US Workers
Helliwell, John F. - 2015
weekend effects for happiness, laughter, enjoyment and sadness, for both full-time and part-time workers, with significant but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457294