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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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relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …
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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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were asked. People with higher incomes in any given year and location report higher levels of happiness, and people … interviewed on days when air pollution was worse than the local seasonal average report lower levels of happiness. Combining these …
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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...
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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...
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unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these … measures happiness is higher for the more educated, for married people, for those with higher income and for whites and lower …, there is a large body of data on happiness that is unavailable on the U-index. For example, according to happiness research …
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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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Reported happiness provides a potentially useful way to evaluate unpriced goods and events; but measures of subjective … interpretation. Previous work tends to estimate time-invariant effects of events on happiness. In the presence of hedonic adaptation … provides a flexible, extensible econometric framework that accommodates adaptation and permits the comparison of happiness …
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Increasing attention is being paid in academic, policy, and public arenas to subjective measures of well-being. This promising trend represents a shift towards measuring positive outcomes in psychology and greater realism in the study of economic behaviour. After a general review of past and...
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