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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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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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Beyond Happiness and Satisfaction : Toward Well-Being Indices Based on Stated Preference

Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2012

relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …

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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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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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The Under-Reporting of Transfers in Household Surveys : Its Nature and Consequences

Meyer, Bruce D. - 2010

High rates of understatement are found for many government transfer programs and in many datasets. This understatement has major implications for our understanding of economic well-being and the effects of transfer programs. We provide estimates of the extent of under-reporting for ten transfer...

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