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In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts … citizens have downwardly trended happiness levels. There is, however, one bright side to an otherwise dark story. The happiness …
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We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this …
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paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely be … replaced by the U-index. I find that first, that there are many similarities. According to both measures happiness is higher … happiness that is unavailable on the U-index. For example, according to happiness research well-being across nations is lower …
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are weekly wages and happiness. Our results show significant effects at age 50 from early adulthood unemployment. These …
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In this paper I examine the characteristics of adults who report on whether they have health care coverage and of people who say that they are unable to see a doctor over the preceding year because of the cost. I make use of a unique data set, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a...
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We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this … demographic variables and income, are held constant. -- Happiness ; aging ; well-being ; GHQ ; cohorts …
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This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on young people’s employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and the Current Population Survey in the United...
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