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How does heterogeneity shape the socioeconomic gradient in health satisfaction?

Jones, Andrew M. (contributor); … - 2007

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Does parenthood make happy people happier? : a lifecycle analysis using panel quantile regression

Samoilova, Evgenia; Vance, Colin - 2015

Drawing on panel data from Germany, this paper analyzes the correlates of happiness, with an eye toward isolating the … children with happiness according to the intrinsic happiness of the parent, the age mix of their children, and whether adult … happiness, this result fades away with age and with the presence of siblings. Moreover, the relationship between parenthood and …

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Walking wounded - the causal welfare loss of underemployment through overeducation

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Kleibrink, Jan - 2013

Using data from the SOEP, we analyze the wellbeing impact of underemployment through overeducation to examine a broader definition of employment loss. Persons leaving a job through exogenous reasons but entering directly into immediate employment may not find a perfect employment match and...

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Unemployment as a social norm revisited : novel evidence from German counties

Kunze, Lars; Suppa, Nicolai - 2016

Unemployed individuals may regain identity utility through coping strategies, which however vary with age and gender. Using highly detailed German county level data, we test whether the social norm effect of unemployment is age-dependent. The wellbeing differential between the unemployed and the...

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Does the burglar also disturb the neighbor? : crime spillovers on individual well-being

Avdic, Daniel; Bünnings, Christian - 2015

Indirect psychological effects induced by crime are likely to contribute significantly to the total costs of crime beyond the financial costs of direct victimization. Using detailed crime statistics for the whole of Germany and linking them to individual-level mental health information from the...

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Job characteristics and subjective well-being in Australia : a capability approach perspective

Suppa, Nicolai - 2012

Using the capability approach as conceptual framework, the present study examines empirically the effect of job characteristics on subjective well-being. First, I suggest a measurement model for four latent job characteristics, using a confirmatory factor analysis. Then, I examine the job...

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Beyond GDP and back : what is the value-added by additional components of welfare measurement?

New, Sonja C. de; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2011

Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...

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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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