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Relative Returns on Equities in Pacific Basin Countries

Engel, Charles - 1994

We examine the factors that determine the differences in ex ante returns on equities in eleven Pacific Basin countries. Our concern is whether real return differentials are primarily caused by nominal return differentials or expected changes in real exchange rates. We find that nominal return...

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High Performing Asian Economies

Fogel, Robert W. - 2004

To American and European economists in 1945, the countries of Asia were unpromising candidates for high economic growth … Asia experienced vigorous economic growth, some with growth rates far exceeding the previous growth rates of the … economic growth would falter, proved to be incorrect. Growth rates will probably continue at high levels in Southeast Asia for …

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The Tyranny of Numbers : Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience

Young, Alwyn - 1994

exports in the newly industrializing economies of East Asia is virtually unprecedented, the growth of total factor …

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Taking the Pulse of Nations : a Biometric Measure of Well-being

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

A growing literature identifies associations between subjective and biometric indicators of wellbeing. These associations, together with the ability of subjective wellbeing (SWB) metrics to predict health and behavioral outcomes, have spawned increasing interest in SWB as an important concept in...

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Is Happiness U-shaped Everywhere? Age and Subjective Well-being in 132 Countries

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

I draw systematic comparisons across 109 data files and 132 countries of the relationship between well-being, variously defined, and age. I produce 444 significant country estimates with controls, so these are ceteris paribus effects, and find evidence of a well-being U-shape in age in one...

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Unhappiness and age

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

I examine the relationship between unhappiness and age using data from six well-being data files on nearly ten million respondents across forty European countries and the United States. I use fifteen different individual characterizations of unhappiness including despair; anxiety; loneliness;...

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Happiness and the Quality of Government

Helliwell, John F. - 2020

This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and generally over 1,500 national-level observations, we show...

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The Effects of Income Transparency on Well-Being : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2019

In 2001, Norwegian tax records became easily accessible online, allowing everyone in the country to observe the incomes of everyone else. According to the income comparisons model, this change in transparency can widen the gap in well-being between richer and poorer individuals. We test this...

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Happiness at Different Ages : The Social Context Matters

Helliwell, John F. - 2018

This paper uses a variety of individual-level survey data from several countries to test for interactions between subjective well-being at different ages and variables measuring the nature and quality of the social context at work, at home, and in the community. While earlier studies have found...

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Now Unions Increase Job Satisfaction and Well-being

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

Using data from the United States and Europe on nearly two million respondents we show the partial correlation between union membership and employee job satisfaction is positive and statistically significant. This runs counter to findings in the seminal work of Freeman (1978) and Borjas (1979)...

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