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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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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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satisfaction questions such as satisfaction with an individual's financial situation. Averaging across the 257 individual country …
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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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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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it increased the life satisfaction gap by 21%. We provide suggestive evidence that some, although probably not all, of …
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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 …
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