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Well-Being and Social Capital : Does Suicide Pose a Puzzle?

Helliwell, John F. - 2021

correlation between national average suicide rates and measures of life satisfaction. Thus social capital does appear to improve … well-being, whether measured by higher average values of life satisfaction or by lower average suicide rates. There is a … variables that have more weight in explaining life satisfaction than suicide (trust and quality of government), and less …

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Well-Being and Social Capital : Does Suicide Pose a Puzzle?

Helliwell, John F. - 2004

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Viewpoint: measuring and understanding subjective well-being

Helliwell, John F.; Barrington-Leigh, Christopher P. - In: The Canadian journal of economics 43 (2010) 3, pp. 729-753

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Cutting through the clutter : searching for an over-arching measure of well-being ; happiness and economic policy (Forum)

Hall, Jon; Barrington-Leigh, Christopher; Helliwell, John F. - In: CESifo DICE report : journal for institutional comparisons 8 (2010) 4, pp. 8-12

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The economics of happiness

Helliwell, John F. - In: NBER reporter online (2015) 2, pp. 14-17

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New measures of the costs of unemployment : evidence from the subjective well-being of 2.3 million Americans

Helliwell, John F.; Huang, Haifang - 2011

"By exploiting two very large samples of US subjective well-being data we are able to obtain comparable estimates of the monetary and other costs of unemployment on the unemployed themselves, while simultaneously estimating the effects of local employment on the subjective well-being of the rest...

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New Measures of the Costs of Unemployment : Evidence from the Subjective Well-Being of 3.3 Million Americans

Helliwell, John F. - 2011

Using two large US surveys, we estimate the effects of unemployment on the subjective well-being of the unemployed and the rest of the population. For the unemployed, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment are several times as large as those due to lower incomes, while the indirect effect at...

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Inequality of Subjective Well-Being as a Comprehensive Measure of Inequality

Goff, Leonard - 2016

The link between happiness and overall inequality is best studied using an index that incorporates different aspects of inequality, and is measured consistently in different countries. One such index is the degree to which happiness itself varies among individuals. Its correlation with both...

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Happiness at Different Ages : The Social Context Matters

Helliwell, John F. - 2018

with greater life satisfaction at all ages, but especially so at ages 60 and above, in some samples deepening the U …-shape in age by increasing the size of the life satisfaction gains following the mid-life low …

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Social Capital and Prosocial Behaviour as Sources of Well-Being

Helliwell, John F.; Aknin, Lara B.; Shiplett, Hugh; … - 2021

This paper surveys evidence documenting positive linkages among social capital, prosocial behaviour, and subjective well-being. Whether in the workplace, at home, in the community, or among nations, better and deeper social connections, and especially higher levels of trust are linked to higher...

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