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Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022

Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect … calm, cheerfulness, feeling active, vigorous, fresh and rested. However, prior evidence on gender differences in global … reveal that women’s happiness was more adversely affected by the COVID shock than men’s, but also that women’s happiness …

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The Gender Well-being Gap

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Given recent controversies about the existence of a gender wellbeing gap we revisit the issue estimating gender … score more highly than men on all negative affect measures and lower than men on all but three positive affect metrics …, confirming a gender wellbeing gap. The gap is apparent across countries and time and is robust to the inclusion of exogenous …

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Minority self-employment in the United States and the impact of affirmative action programs

Blanchflower, David G. - 2008

evidence on trends in self-employment for the US by race, ethnicity and gender. Evidence is also presented for construction … which has self-employment rates roughly double the national rates and where there are strikingly high racial and gender … that disparities between the self-employment rates of white men and white women and minorities in construction narrowed in …