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The Challenges of Incorporating Empowerment into the HDI: Some Lessons from Happiness Economics and Quality of Life Research

Graham, Carol - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

happiness surveys to study well being in its various dimensions, ranging from well being within persons, to the determinants of … poor to make choices or to take certain actions. Happiness surveys are a means to assess the well being of individuals who … quality of life, based on extensive work with happiness surveys in Latin America, and how that accumulated knowledge can …

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Life Satisfaction and Grandparenthood: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper tests whether there is a potential payoff to grandparenthood in terms of life satisfaction. Using the new nationwide survey for the UK, which consists of over 5,000 grandparents and 6,000 non-grandparents aged 40 and above, and a flexible multiple-index ordered probit model with...

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Gender and Well-being Around the World: Some Insights from the Economics of Happiness

Graham, Carol; Chattopadhyay, Soumya - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2012

development. We aim to contribute to this work by looking at differences in reported well-being (happiness) across genders around … find substantial differences in the standard relationships between key variables - such as marriage - and happiness when we … affected by the same empirical and methodological factors that drive the paradoxes underlying the income and happiness debates …

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Putting different price tags on the same health condition: Re-evaluating the well-being valuation approach

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; van den Berg, Bernard - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 5, pp. 1032-1043

Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new well-being valuation method. Yet there is no clear consensus on what the best measure of individual's experience may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue,...

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Parental unemployment and children's happiness: A longitudinal study of young people's well-being in unemployed households

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Vernoit, James - In: Labour Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 253-263

Using a unique longitudinal data of British youths we estimate how adolescents' overall happiness is related to parents … positive influence on children's overall happiness. However, this positive association became either strongly negative or … statistically insignificant as the child grew older. The estimated effects of parental job loss on children's happiness also appear …

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What childhood characteristics predict psychological resilience to economic shocks in adulthood?

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 45 (2014) C, pp. 84-101

This paper investigates whether people’s psychological resilience to one of the most important economic shocks – job loss – can be predicted using early childhood characteristics. Using a longitudinal data that tracked almost 3000 children into adulthood, we showed that the negative effect...

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Resilience to Economic Shocks and the Long Reach of Childhood Bullying

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

This paper investigates whether people's ability to withstand and adapt to one of the most important economic shocks - job loss - is determined early on in childhood. Using nationally representative longitudinal data that tracks almost 3,000 children into adulthood, we show that the negative...

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Resilience to Economic Shocks and the Long Reach of Childhood Bullying

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates whether people's ability to withstand and adapt to one of the most important economic shocks – job loss – is determined early on in childhood. Using nationally representative longitudinal data that tracks almost 3,000 children into adulthood, we show that the negative...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010585695

The Transferable Scars: A Longitudinal Evidence of Psychological Impact of Past Parental Unemployment on Adolescents in the United Kingdom

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Vernoit, James - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

current happiness and self-esteem of the children. We find that a past unemployment spell of the father has important …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570485

Putting Different Price Tags on the Same Health Condition: Re-evaluating the Well-Being Valuation Approach

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; van den Berg, Bernard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new well-being valuation method. Yet there is currently no clear consensus on what the best measure of individual’s experience may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839297