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Changing conditions, persistent mentality : an anatomy of East German unhappiness, 1990-2016

Biermann, Philipp; Welsch, Heinz - 2019

diminished steadily over time, the mentality-related gap changed non-monotonically, reflecting different happiness responses of …

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How fuel poverty affects subjective well-being : panel evidence from Germany

Biermann, Philipp - 2016

This paper uses panel data on life satisfaction of about 40,000 individuals in Germany from 1994 to 2013 to analyze the relationship of subjective well-being and several measures of fuel poverty. We study fuel poverty and its effects on life satisfaction in terms of incidence, intensity and in...

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Poverty is a public bad : panel evidence from subjective well-being data

Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2016

Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty. Using panel data for 39,239 individuals living in Germany from 2005-2013, we show that people's SWB is negatively correlated with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling...

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Measuring nuclear power plant externalities using life satisfaction data : a spatial analysis for Switzerland

Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2015

Conceptualizing externalities from perceived nuclear risk as being related to distance from nuclear facilities, we estimate the relationship between Swiss citizens' life satisfaction (understood as a proxy of utility) and the distance of their place of residence from the nearest nuclear power...

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International Happiness

Blanchflower, David G. - 2011

This paper describes the findings from a new, and intrinsically interdisciplinary, literature on happiness and human …

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"Beauty is the Promise of Happiness"?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011

We measure the impact of individuals' looks on life satisfaction/happiness. Using five data sets, from the U.S., Canada … beauty. Beauty raises happiness: A one standard-deviation change in beauty generates about 0.10 standard deviations of … additional satisfaction/happiness among men, 0.12 among women. Accounting for a wide variety of covariates, particularly effects …

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Early Maternal Employment and Family Wellbeing

Chatterji, Pinka - 2011

This study uses longitudinal data from the NICHD Study on Early Child Care (SECC) to examine the effects of maternal employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First, we estimate the effects of maternal employment on...

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The Friends Factor : How Students' Social Networks Affect Their Academic Achievement and Well-Being?

Lavy, Victor - 2012

have positive effects on other measures of well-being, including social and overall happiness in school, time allocated for …

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Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred from Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices

Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2013

satisfaction and Cantril's ladder) imply tradeoffs closer to choice than does affective happiness (even time-integrated), and as …

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Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan

Campante, Filipe R. - 2013

We study the economic effects of religious practices in the context of the observance of Ramadan fasting, one of the central tenets of Islam. To establish causality, we exploit variation in the length of the fasting period due to the rotating Islamic calendar. We report two key, quantitatively...

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