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The impact of terrorism on well-being : evidence from the Boston Marathon Bombing
Clark, Andrew E.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Doyle, Orla - 2017
A growing literature concludes that terrorism impacts the economy, yet less is known about its impact on utility. This paper estimates the impact of the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing on well-being, by exploiting representative U.S. daily data. Using both a regression discontinuity and an event...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714846
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Gender differences in mental well-being : a decomposition analysis
Madden, David - 2008
The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being. A consistent pattern across countries is that women report lower levels of mental well-being, as measured by the GHQ. This paper applies decomposition techniques to Irish data for 1994 and 2000 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723874
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Worker well-being before and during the COVID-19 restrictions : a longitudinal study in the UK
Pelly, Diane; Doyle, Orla; Daly, Michael; Delaney, Liam - 2021
. However, these improvements come at the expense of reduced homelife satisfaction and job performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437086
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The impact of victimisation on subjective well-being
Shannon, Matthew - 2021
This paper uses the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the relationship between victimisation and several measures of subjective well-being. Using person fixed effects models, I find that being attacked or insulted both significantly reduce well-being at the mean, with no significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012622172
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Worker well-being and quit intentions: is measuring job satisfaction enough?
Pelly, Diane - 2022
very narrow conceptualisation of well-being, namely job satisfaction, thus ignoring the documented multidimensionality of … which hedonic (job satisfaction; positive and negative affect) and eudemonic (disengagement; satisfaction of basic … satisfaction on its own. My findings suggest that the standard single-item job satisfaction indicator is probably good enough for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191366
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Understanding the relationship between remote-working employees’ well-being and job-effectiveness during the COVID-19 pandemic
Saini, Mandeep; Roulet, Thomas - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013175803
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An analysis of mental stress in Ireland, 1994 - 2000
Madden, David (contributor) - 2007
The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being with those people with values below a certain threshold regarded as suffering from mental stress. Comparison of mental stress levels across population may then be sensitive to the chosen threshold. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003581430
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Health and wealth on the roller-voaster : Ireland, 2003 - 2011
Madden, David - 2013
This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC). It also examines developments in the correlation between the two. Income poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009744041
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The impact of an economic boom on the level and distribution of well-being : Ireland, 1994 - 2001
Madden, David - 2010 - Revised Version: April 2010
The impact of increased affluence on life satisfaction is a matter of some controversy. This paper examines the impact … evidence of a substantial increase in life satisfaction in the domain of finance and of an improvement in mental wellbeing …. There is a reduction in inequality and polarisation for virtually all domains of life satisfaction. A social welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726074