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, although it fell slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which …
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associations, together with the ability of subjective wellbeing (SWB) metrics to predict health and behavioral outcomes, have … from the Health Survey for England (HSE) and Scottish Health Surveys (SHeS) we show that its correlates are similar in a … number of ways to those for SWB, and that it is highly correlated with SWB metrics, as well as self-assessed health. Second …
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The "Easterlin paradox" 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 positive...
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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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relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …
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affect measures - life satisfaction, enjoyment, smiling and being well-rested - and four negative affect variables - pain …
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endogenous variables. However, when one examines the three 'global' wellbeing metrics - happiness, life satisfaction and Cantril …. This is the true paradox - morbidity doesn't match mortality by gender. Women say they are less cheerful and calm, more …
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monotonic decrease in illbeing by age. The reason for the change is the deterioration in young people's mental health both …
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Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...
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was an excellent predictor of older age mortality from ischemic heart disease or stroke. Changes in frame size explain … roughly three-fifths of the mortality decline among white men between 1915 and 1988 and predict even sharper declines in older … age mortality between 1988 and 2022. Data accompanying this paper can be found at <a href="http://www.nber.org/gould">www.nber.org/gould</a> …
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