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Inequality of Subjective Well-Being as a Comprehensive Measure of Inequality

Goff, Leonard - 2016

The link between happiness and overall inequality is best studied using an index that incorporates different aspects of … inequality, and is measured consistently in different countries. One such index is the degree to which happiness itself varies … among individuals. Its correlation with both happiness levels and social trust is substantially stronger than the …

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How's Life at Home? New Evidence on Marriage and the Set Point for Happiness

Grover, Shawn - 2015

Subjective well-being research has often found that marriage is positively correlated with well-being. Some have argued that this correlation may be result of happier people being more likely to marry. Others have presented evidence suggesting that the well-being benefits of marriage are...

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Migration as a Test of the Happiness Set Point Hypothesis : Evidence from Immigration to Canada

Helliwell, John F. - 2016

Strong versions of the set point hypothesis argue that subjective well-being measures reflect each individual's own personality and that deviations from that set point will tend to be short-lived, rendering them poor measures of the quality of life. International migration provides an excellent...

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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 …

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New Evidence on Trust and Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2016

are typically concentrated towards the lower end of any national distribution of happiness. Thus the resilience …

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Prosocial Spending and Well-Being : Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal

Aknin, Lara B. - 2018

countries, we show that prosocial spending is consistently associated with greater happiness. To test for causality, we conduct …, causal impact on happiness. In contrast to traditional economic thought--which places self-interest as the guiding principle …

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New Measures of the Costs of Unemployment : Evidence from the Subjective Well-Being of 3.3 Million Americans

Helliwell, John F. - 2011

Using two large US surveys, we estimate the effects of unemployment on the subjective well-being of the unemployed and the rest of the population. For the unemployed, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment are several times as large as those due to lower incomes, while the indirect effect at...

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How Happy are Your Neighbours? Variation in Life Satisfaction Among 1200 Canadian Neighbourhoods and Communities

Helliwell, John F. - 2018

This paper presents a new public-use dataset for community-level life satisfaction in Canada, based on more than 400,000 observations from the Canadian Community Health Surveys and the General Social Surveys. The country is divided into 1215 similarly sampled geographic regions, using natural,...

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Weekends and Subjective Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2011

day-of-week effect for life evaluations, represented here by the Cantril Ladder, but significantly more happiness … social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2% …

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Well-Being and Trust in the Workplace

Helliwell, John F. - 2009

This paper summarizes and extends our recent work using life satisfaction regressions to estimate the relative values of financial and non-financial job characteristics. The well-being results show strikingly large values for non-financial job characteristics, especially workplace trust and...

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