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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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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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Overseas Deployment, Combat Exposure, and Well-Being in the 2010 National Survey of Veterans

Edwards, Ryan D. - 2012

Recent military engagements in Iraq (OIF) and Afghanistan (OEF) raise questions about the effects on service members of overseas deployment, which can include service in a combat or war zone, exposure to casualties, or both. The 2010 National Survey of Veterans, which asked a broad cross section...

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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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Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel

Di Tella, Rafael - 2007

We study quot;habituationquot; to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people … living in Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a quot;happiness equationquot; defined over several lags of … in status and 52% of one standard deviation in income are associated with similar increases in happiness. In the long …

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Happiness at Different Ages : The Social Context Matters

Helliwell, John F. - 2018

highly significant interactions. Results are presented for life evaluations and (in some surveys) for happiness yesterday, in …

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The Effects of Income Transparency on Well-Being : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2019

strategies, we show that the higher transparency increased the gap in happiness between richer and poorer individuals by 29%, and …

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Happiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks

Di Tella, Rafael - 2010

We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the unemployment rate and the inflation rate. Our preferred interpretation is that this shows that emotions are affected by macroeconomic fluctuations. Contentment is, at a minimum, one of the...

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Work Expectations, Realizations, and Depression in Older Workers

Falba, Tracy - 2008

We explore the impact on depressive symptoms of deviation in actual labor force behavior at age 62 from earlier expectations. Our sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We examine workers who were less than 62 years of age at the 1992 HRS baseline, and...

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Perceptions of Economic Insecurity : Evidence from the Survey of Economic Expectations

Dominitz, Jeff; Manski, Charles F. - 2021

We have recently initiated the Survey of Economic Expectations (SEE) to learn how Americans perceive their near-term futures. This paper uses SEE data on over two thousand labor force participants interviewed in 1994 and 1995 to describe how Americans in the labor force perceive the risk of...

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