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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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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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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 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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, education, and gender) that may be correlated with both risk attitudes and inequality aversion. -- Happiness ; inequality …
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health ; depression ; happiness ; Easterlin paradox …
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