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This paper describes the findings from a new, and intrinsically interdisciplinary, literature on happiness and human …
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-being. In cross-sectional data, happiness and mental health rise in an approximately dose-response way with the number of daily … satisfaction, WEMWBS mental well-being, GHQ mental disorders, self-reported health, happiness, nervousness, and feeling low …
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A modern statistical literature argues that countries such as Denmark are particularly happy while nations like East Germany are not. Are such claims credible? The paper explores this by building on two ideas. The first is that psychological well-being and high blood-pressure are thought by...
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In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts … citizens have downwardly trended happiness levels. There is, however, one bright side to an otherwise dark story. The happiness …
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unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these … measures happiness is higher for the more educated, for married people, for those with higher income and for whites and lower …, there is a large body of data on happiness that is unavailable on the U-index. For example, according to happiness research …
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, this paper designs a test that makes it possible to allow for different birth-cohorts. A robust U-shape of happiness in age …
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Do entrepreneurs earn supernormal returns, or does competitive pressure ensure that entrepreneurs receive the same utility level as workers? If those who run their own businesses get supernormal returns (or 'rents') they should be happier than those who work as employees. The paper tests this...
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This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a random … sample of 16,000 adult Americans. The paper finds that sexual activity enters strongly positively in happiness equations … greater effects on the happiness of highly educated people than those with low levels of education. The happiness …
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If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...
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I examine the relationship between unhappiness and age using data from six well-being data files on nearly ten million respondents across forty European countries and the United States. I use fifteen different individual characterizations of unhappiness including despair; anxiety; loneliness;...
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