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Well-being across America
Oswald, Andrew J.; Wu, Stephen - 2009
This paper uses new Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data to provide the first estimates of well-being across the states of America. From this sample of 1.3 million US citizens, we analyze measures of life satisfaction and mental health. Adjusting for people's characteristics, states...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269501
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Well-being across America
Oswald, Andrew J.; Wu, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper uses new Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data to provide the first estimates of well-being across the states of America. From this sample of 1.3 million US citizens, we analyze measures of life satisfaction and mental health. Adjusting for people's characteristics, states...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514854
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The long-run consequences of Chernobyl : evidence on subjective well-being, mental health and welfare
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - 2014
subjective well-being, higher depression rates and lower subjective survival probabilities; they rely more on governmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364760
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The long-run consequences of Chernobyl : evidence on subjective well-being, mental health and welfare
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - 2014
subjective well-being, higher depression rates and lower subjective survival probabilities; they rely more on governmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370275
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The long-run consequences of Chernobyl : evidence on subjective well-being, mental health and welfare
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - In: Journal of public economics 135 (2016), pp. 47-60
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654209
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Female suicide and the concept of the midlife crisis
Oswald, Andrew J.; Tohamy, Ahmed - 2017
The idea that humans - especially females - are prone to some form of 'midlife crisis' has typically been viewed with extreme skepticism by social scientists. We point out the potential equivalence between an age U-shape in a new well-being literature and a matching hill-shape in especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647669
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Unhappiness and pain in modern America : a review essay, and further evidence, on Carol Graham's happiness for all?
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011770416
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Unhappiness and pain in modern America : a review essay, and further evidence, on Carol Graham' s Happiness for all?
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011783556
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Do humans suffer a psychological low in midlife? : two approaches (with and without controls) in seven data sets
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017
applies each to large cross-sections and compares the patterns of life-satisfaction and happiness. Using the first method …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724541
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Female Suicide and the Concept of the Midlife Crisis
Oswald, Andrew J.; Tohamy, Ahmed - 2017
The idea that humans especially females are prone to some form of 'midlife crisis' has typically been viewed with extreme skepticism by social scientists. We point out the potential equivalence between an age U-shape in a new well-being literature and a matching hill-shape in especially female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653487