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Unhappiness and Age
Blanchflower, David G. - 2022
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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Is Happiness U-Shaped Everywhere? Age and Subjective Well-Being in 132 Countries
Blanchflower, David G. - 2022
satisfaction questions such as satisfaction with an individual's financial situation. Averaging across the 257 individual country …
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The Scots May Be Brave But They are Neither Healthy Nor Happy
Bell, David N.F; Blanchflower, David G. - 2021
worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The …
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Happiness Adaptation to Income Beyond "Basic Needs"
Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 2021
We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975-2002, shows different...
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A Note on Long-Run Persistence of Public Health Outcomes in Pandemics
Lin, Zhixian - 2020
Covid-19 is the single largest threat to global public health since the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-20. Was the world better prepared in 2020 than it was in 1918? After a century of public health and basic science research, pandemic response and mortality outcomes should be better than in...
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Two Tales of Adjustment : East Asian Lessons for European Growth
Chari, Anusha - 2014
be more different. Common wisdom has it that on impact Asia endured fiscal austerity imposed by the IMF whereas the IMF … different policies to begin with, the fiscal adjustment in Asia was far more modest than is commonly known and the switch from … stimulus to austerity in Europe was quite abrupt. The difference in fiscal stance helps explain the difference in the post …
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Is Well-Being U-Shaped Over the Life Cycle?
Blanchflower, David G. - 2010
Europe, newer birth-cohorts are happier …
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Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis : Us vs. Europe
Dolls, Mathias - 2010
stabilizers in Eastern and Southern Europe are much lower than in Central and Northern European countries. We also investigate …
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Can Severe Fiscal Contractions Be Expansionary? Tales of Two Small European Countries
Giavazzi, Francesco; Pagano, Marco - 2021
According to conventional wisdom, a fiscal consolidation is likely to contract real aggregate demand. It has often been argued, however, that this conclusion is misleading as it neglects the role of expectations of future policy: if the fiscal consolidation is read by the private sector as a...
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Dimensions of Health in the Elderly Population
Cutler, David M. - 2011
In this paper, we characterize the multi-faceted health of the elderly and understand how health along multiple dimensions has changed over time. Our data are from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, 1991-2007. We show that 19 measures of health can be combined into three broad categories:...
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