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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...
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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...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776806
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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
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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
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Perceptions of Economic Insecurity : Evidence from the Survey of Economic Expectations
Dominitz, Jeff; Manski, Charles F. - 2021
We have recently initiated the Survey of Economic Expectations (SEE) to learn how Americans perceive their near-term futures. This paper uses SEE data on over two thousand labor force participants interviewed in 1994 and 1995 to describe how Americans in the labor force perceive the risk of...
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Social Capital and Prosocial Behaviour as Sources of Well-Being
Helliwell, John F.; Aknin, Lara B.; Shiplett, Hugh; … - 2021
This paper surveys evidence documenting positive linkages among social capital, prosocial behaviour, and subjective well-being. Whether in the workplace, at home, in the community, or among nations, better and deeper social connections, and especially higher levels of trust are linked to higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224954
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Well-Being and Social Capital : Does Suicide Pose a Puzzle?
Helliwell, John F. - 2021
correlation between national average suicide rates and measures of life satisfaction. Thus social capital does appear to improve … well-being, whether measured by higher average values of life satisfaction or by lower average suicide rates. There is a … variables that have more weight in explaining life satisfaction than suicide (trust and quality of government), and less …
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