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Happiness on Tap : Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco
Devoto, Florencia - 2014
We study the demand for household water connections in urban Morocco, and the effect of such connections on household welfare. In the northern city of Tangiers, among homeowners without a private connection to the city's water grid, a random subset was offered a simplified procedure to purchase...
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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States
Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016
Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and...
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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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 …
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Yet Another Tale of Two Cities : Buenos Aires and Chicago
Campante, Filipe R. - 2009
Buenos Aires and Chicago grew during the nineteenth century for remarkably similar reasons. Both cities were conduits for moving meat and grain from fertile hinterlands to eastern markets. However, despite their initial similarities, Chicago was vastly more prosperous for most of the 20th...
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