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the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index. The state level …
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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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On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The self-assessed wellbeing of Scots is lower than that of...
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this 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 … large body of data on happiness that is unavailable on the U-index. For example, according to happiness research well …
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autoregressions are a suitable tool to analyze the underlying structure of changes in happiness and its coevolution with changes in … also examine how the structure of happiness differs with respect to different "Big Five" personality traits. Personality …-being ; happiness ; vector autoregressions ; SOEP ; personality traits …
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This short note seeks to replicate the quantile regression analysis in Binder and Coad (2011), but taking into account individual-specific fixed effects (using the BHPS data set). It finds declining effects of the four main variables of interest (health, social life, income, education) over the...
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Working in non-profit organizations has been shown to be good for individuals' satisfaction with their jobs despite lower incomes. This paper explores the impact of nonprofit work on life satisfaction more general for the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and finds a significant positive...
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