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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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This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...
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Subjective Well-Being has increasingly been studied by several economists. This paper fits in that literature but takes into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains. In this paper, we consider Subjective Well-Being as a...
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This paper analyzes whether individuals have equal opportunity to achieve happiness (or well- being). We estimate …
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The common finding of a zero or negative correlation between the presence of children and parental well-being continues to generate research interest. We here consider international data, including well over one million observations on Europeans from eleven years of Eurobarometer surveys, and in...
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applies each to large cross-sections and compares the patterns of life-satisfaction and happiness. Using the first method …
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