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Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022

the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index. The state level …

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Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Ramos, Xavier - 2010

Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...

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Inequality aversion and risk attitudes

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Ramos, Xavier - 2010

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International evidence on well-being

Blanchflower, David G. - 2008

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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The Scots may be brave but they are neither healthy nor happy

Bell, David N.F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2005

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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Youth unemployment in Europe and the United States

Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2011

are weekly wages and happiness. Our results show significant effects at age 50 from early adulthood unemployment. These …

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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases : an alternative model for monetary appraisal

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001

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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The anatomy of Subjective Well-Being

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2001

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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The mid-life dip in well-being : economists (who find it) versus psychologists (who don't)!

Blanchflower, David G.; Graham, Carol - 2020

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Children, unhappiness and family finances

Blanchflower, David G.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2020 - This version: May 12th 2020

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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