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The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is...
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Unhappy Cities
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014
There are persistent differences in self-reported subjective well-being across U.S. metropolitan areas, and residents of declining cities appear less happy than other Americans. Newer residents of these cities appear to be as unhappy as longer term residents, and yet some people continue to move...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050312
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Migration as a Test of the Happiness Set Point Hypothesis : Evidence from Immigration to Canada
Helliwell, John F. - 2016
subjective well-being differ greatly among countries. Life satisfaction scores for immigrants to Canada from up to 100 source …, the average levels and distributions of life satisfaction scores among immigrants mimic those of other Canadians rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983665
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221834
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225019
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Happiness Adaptation to Income Beyond "Basic Needs"
Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 2021
We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975-2002, shows different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237594
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The Mid-Life Dip in Well-Being : Economists (Who Find it) Versus Psychologists (Who Don'T)!
Blanchflower, David G.; Graham, Carol - 2021
A number of studies – including our own – find a mid-life dip in well-being. We review a psychology literature that claims that the evidence of a U-shape is "overblown" and if there is such a decline it is "trivial". We find remarkably strong and consistent evidence across countries and US...
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How's Life at Home? New Evidence on Marriage and the Set Point for Happiness
Grover, Shawn - 2015
find that the married have a less deep U-shape in life satisfaction across age groups than do the unmarried, indicating … that marriage may help ease the causes of the mid-life dip in life satisfaction and that the benefits of marriage are … marriage and life satisfaction, and find that well-being effects of marriage are about twice as large for those whose spouse is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030989
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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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International Happiness
Blanchflower, David G. - 2011
This paper describes the findings from a new, and intrinsically interdisciplinary, literature on happiness and human well-being. The paper focuses on international evidence. We report the patterns in modern data; we discuss what has been persuasively established and what has not; we suggest paths...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131673