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relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …
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and regions in the factors linked to life satisfaction, paying special attention to the social context. Our principal … findings are: First, using the larger pooled sample, we find that answers to the satisfaction with life and Cantril ladder … international and intra-national differences in life satisfaction. Third, the very significant influences of both income and social …
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This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a random sample of 16,000 adult Americans. The paper finds that sexual activity enters strongly positively in happiness equations. Greater income does not buy more sex, nor more sexual...
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-reported happiness and life satisfaction. I find robust evidence that high inflation and, to a greater extent, unemployment lower …
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age 50 and older. We use a sample of 64,205 observations from 4 waves (2008-2014) of the Health and Retirement Study, a …
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of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at … in health satisfaction and rise in disability with age are much stronger in poor countries than in rich countries. In …' life or health satisfaction; the fraction of Kenyans who are satisfied with their personal health is the same as the …
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The absence of a competitive market may enable public-sector workers to extract rents from taxpayers in the form of high pay, especially when public-sector workers are unionized. On the other hand, this rent extraction may be suppressed by the ability of taxpayers to vote with their feet,...
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The quot;Easterlin paradoxquot; suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear...
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In this paper we employ World Values Survey measures of life satisfaction as though they were direct measures of … life satisfaction is more closely linked to several World Bank measures of the quality of government than to real per … satisfaction. We test for differences in the relative importance of different aspects of good government, and find a hierarchy of …
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Public expenditures on non-contributory pensions are equivalent to at least 1 percent of GDP in several countries in Latin America and is expected to increase. We explore the effect of non-contributory pensions on the well-being of the beneficiary population by studying the Pensiones...
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