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Long Term Effects of Cash Transfer Programs in Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Medina, Carlos; … - 2023
Conditional Cash transfer (CCT) programs have been shown to have positive effects on a variety of outcomes including education, consumption and health visits, amongst others. We estimate the long-run impacts of the urban version of Familias en Acción, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage...
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Challenges in Constructing a Survey-Based Well-Being Index
Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2017
Many in both government and academia are showing renewed interest in developing new measures of national well-being. A new measure that goes “beyond GDP” to comprehensively capture non-market goods could be a useful supplement to traditional economic indicators for guiding policy and more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964392
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The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures
Krueger, Alan B. - 2010
This paper studies the test-retest reliability of a standard self-reported life satisfaction measure and of affect … weeks apart is 0.64, which is slightly higher than the correlation of life satisfaction (r=0.59). Correlations between … income, net affect and life satisfaction are presented, and adjusted for attenuation bias due to measurement error. Life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760188
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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 those due to lower incomes, while the indirect effect at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129126
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Beyond Happiness and Satisfaction : Toward Well-Being Indices Based on Stated Preference
Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2012
relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100684
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Overseas Deployment, Combat Exposure, and Well-Being in the 2010 National Survey of Veterans
Edwards, Ryan D. - 2012
Recent military engagements in Iraq (OIF) and Afghanistan (OEF) raise questions about the effects on service members of overseas deployment, which can include service in a combat or war zone, exposure to casualties, or both. The 2010 National Survey of Veterans, which asked a broad cross section...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103805
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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...
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Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel
Di Tella, Rafael - 2007
We study quot;habituationquot; to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people living in Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a quot;happiness equationquot; defined over several lags of income and status and compare the long run effects. We...
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Happiness at Different Ages : The Social Context Matters
Helliwell, John F. - 2018
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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The Effects of Income Transparency on Well-Being : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2019
it increased the life satisfaction gap by 21%. We provide suggestive evidence that some, although probably not all, of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891316