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Is Well-Being U-Shaped Over the Life Cycle?
Blanchflower, David G. - 2010
Europe, newer birth-cohorts are happier …
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Unhappiness and Age
Blanchflower, David G. - 2022
I examine the relationship between unhappiness and age using data from six well-being data files on nearly ten million respondents across forty European countries and the United States. I use fifteen different individual characterizations of unhappiness including despair; anxiety; loneliness;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323984
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Happiness and Aging in the United States
Blanchflower, David G.; Graham, Carol - 2022
We examine the relationship between union membership and job satisfaction over the life-course using data from the … added in later years. Conditioning on one’s social class at birth, together with one’s education and employment status, we … find there is a significant negative correlation between union membership and job satisfaction that is apparent across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090440
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Is Happiness U-Shaped Everywhere? Age and Subjective Well-Being in 132 Countries
Blanchflower, David G. - 2022
, controlling for education, marital and labor force status. I also frequently find it without any controls at all. There is … satisfaction questions such as satisfaction with an individual's financial situation. Averaging across the 257 individual country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243879
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Do State Laws Affect the Age of Marriage? a Cautionary Tale About Avoidance Behavior
Blank, Rebecca M. - 2008
This paper investigates the response of young people in the United States to state laws dictating the minimum age at which individuals could marry, with and without parental consent. We use variation across states and over time to document behavioral responses to laws governing the age of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773178
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Education and the Age Profile of Literacy into Adulthood
Cascio, Elizabeth - 2008
particular institutional features of secondary and postsecondary education correlate, at the country level, with higher rates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771675
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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
This paper argues that openness to new, unconventional and disruptive ideas has a first-order impact on creative innovations—innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on the choice between incremental and radical innovation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018152
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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
This paper argues that openness to new, unconventional and disruptive ideas has a first-order impact on creative innovations-innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on the choice between incremental and radical innovation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034169
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The Medical Costs of the Young and Old : A Forty Year Perspective
Cutler, David M.; Meara, Ellen - 2021
In this paper, we examine the growth in medical care spending by age over the past 40 years. We show that between 1953 and 1987, medical spending increased disproportionately for infants, those under 1 year, and the elderly, those 65 and older. Annual spending growth for infants was 9.8 percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212581
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The Allocation of Time : Young Versus Elderly Households in Japan
Yamada, Tadashi; Yamada, Tetsuji - 2021
Our study shows that the household production theory illuminates the behavior of households in the allocation of time and consumption expenditures. Among the noteworthy findings derived from our data, the various household non-market time allocations (consequently, market labor supply) cannot be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310141