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Wellbeing rankings
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471233
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Imitative obesity and relative utility
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Van … - 2009
If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269287
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The paradox of declining female happiness
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2009
that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …-being, and is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded … a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271230
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271883
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272699
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Subjective Well-Being and Income: Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013
Many scholars have argued that once basic needs have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319466
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012216548
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222035
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Imitative obesity and relative utility
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Van … - 2009
. -- Body mass index BMI ; comparisons ; imitation ; happiness ; peer effects ; dieting ; mental health ; well-being ; obesity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003810316
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The paradox of declining female happiness
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857039