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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 … the public is willing to accept in terms of unemployment for inflation, at least in terms of keeping the average level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759669
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769532
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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 … still employed, a one percentage point increase in local unemployment has an impact on well-being roughly equivalent to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129126
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Recessions, Reeling Markets, and Retiree Well-Being
Coile, Courtney - 2010
more severe. A higher unemployment rate around the time of retirement reduces Social Security income for those in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142294
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Retirement Income Security and Well-Being in Canada
Baker, Michael - 2010
A large international literature has documented the labor market distortions associated with social security benefits for near-retirees. In this paper, we investigate the 'other side' of social security programs, seeking to document improvements in wellbeing arising from the provision of public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757959
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Life (Evaluation), Hiv/Aids, and Death in Africa
Deaton, Angus - 2010
We use data from the Gallup World Poll and from the Demographic and Health Surveys to investigate how subjective wellbeing (SWB) is affected by mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, including mortality from HIV/AIDS. The Gallup data provide direct evidence on Africans' own emotional and evaluative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758016
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Life Satisfaction and Quality of Development
Helliwell, John F. - 2010
This paper argues that measures of life satisfaction, now being collected annually by the Gallup World Poll in more than 130 countries, permit a much broader view of the quality and consequences of development than other common measures. While these data show the importance of conventionally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758145
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International Evidence on Well-Being
Blanchflower, David G. - 2010
well-being across nations is lower the higher is the unemployment rate, the current inflation rate and the highest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758405
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Economics and Ideology : Causal Evidence of the Impact of Economic Conditions on Support for Redistribution and Other Ballot Proposals
Brunner, Eric J. - 2010
Using California ballot proposition returns and exogenous shifts to labor demand, we provide the first large-scale causal evidence of the impact of economic conditions on policy preferences. Consistent with economic theory, we find that positive economic shocks decrease support for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759207
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What Good is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption
Finkelstein, Amy - 2010
We estimate how the marginal utility of consumption varies with health. To do so, we develop a simple model in which the impact of health on the marginal utility of consumption can be estimated from data on permanent income, health, and utility proxies. We estimate the model using the Health and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759209