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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 … robust differences in life satisfaction between and across urban and rural communities. We then match the life satisfaction … contextual variables for multi-level modelling with individual life satisfaction data set in a community context …

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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 … with greater life satisfaction at all ages, but especially so at ages 60 and above, in some samples deepening the U …-shape in age by increasing the size of the life satisfaction gains following the mid-life low …

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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

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …- being. Finally, studying changes in satisfaction over time, we find that as countries experience economic growth, their …

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