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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...
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Long-Run Effects of Lottery Wealth on Psychological Well-Being
Lindqvist, Erik - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833133
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Unhappiness and Pain in Modern America : a Review Essay, and Further Evidence, on Carol Graham's Happiness for All?
Blanchflower, David G. - 2017
In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts forward is an important one. Here we review the intellectual case and offer additional evidence. We conclude broadly on the author's side. Strikingly, Americans appear to be in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941963
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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...
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Medicaid Expansion and the Mental Health of College Students
Cowan, Benjamin; Hao, Zhuang - 2022
Reported mental health problems have risen dramatically among U.S. college students over time, as has treatment for … national sample of college students. We find that students from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to report being on … public insurance after 2014 in expansion states relative to non-expansion states, while more advantaged students do not see …
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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 …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000535
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909906