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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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Early Childhood Health Shocks and Adult Wellbeing : Evidence from Wartime Britain

Schiman, Jeffrey C. - 2017

A growing literature argues that early environments affecting childhood health may influence significantly later-life health and socioeconomic status. In this article, we present new evidence on the relationship between infant mortality and later-life outcomes using variation in infant mortality...

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Valuing Pain Using the Subjective Well-Being Method

Ólafsdóttir, Thorhildur - 2017

Chronic pain clearly lowers utility, but it is empirically challenging to estimate the monetary compensation needed to offset this utility reduction. We use the subjective well-being method to estimate the value of pain relief among individuals age 50 and older. We use a sample of 64,205...

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The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales : Empirical Results

Bond, Timothy - 2018

We replicate nine key results from the happiness literature: the Easterlin Paradox, the ‘U-shaped' relation between … happiness and age, the happiness trade-off between inflation and unemployment, cross-country comparisons of happiness, the … impact of the Moving to Opportunity program on happiness, the impact of marriage and children on happiness, the ‘paradox' of …

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The Well-Being of the Overemployed and the Underemployed and the Rise in Depression in the UK

Bell, David N. F. - 2018

of five main measures of well-being: happiness; life satisfaction; whether life is worthwhile; anxiety and depression … in 2010 that is not matched by declines in happiness measures (positive affect). The fear of unemployment obtained from …

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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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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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GDP, Wellbeing, and Health : Thoughts on the 2017 Round of the International Comparison Program

Deaton, Angus; Schreyer, Paul - 2021

In March 2020, the International Comparison Project published its latest results, for the calendar year 2017. This round presents common-unit or purchasing-power-parity data for 137 countries on Gross Domestic Product and its components. We review a number of important issues, what is new, what...

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Social Capital and Prosocial Behaviour as Sources of Well-Being

Helliwell, John F.; Aknin, Lara B.; Shiplett, Hugh; … - 2021

This paper surveys evidence documenting positive linkages among social capital, prosocial behaviour, and subjective well-being. Whether in the workplace, at home, in the community, or among nations, better and deeper social connections, and especially higher levels of trust are linked to higher...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2021

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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