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income, net affect and life satisfaction are presented, and adjusted for attenuation bias due to measurement error. Life … satisfaction is found to correlate much more strongly with income than does net affect. Components of affect that are more person …This paper studies the test-retest reliability of a standard self-reported life satisfaction measure and of affect …
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The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … show that adolescents and young adults who report higher life satisfaction or positive affect grow up to earn significantly … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is …
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The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
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Society drifts apart in many dimensions. Economists focus on income of the poor and rich and the distribution of income … of multidimensional polarization we extend the income dimension by time, a pre-requisite and fundamental resource of any …) polarization compensation between time and income, parameters of a CES-type subjective well-being function, is evaluated …
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ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and … the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the …
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generally declining independent living and economic self-sufficiency ('failure to launch') among 18-34 year-old men and women in … their early 20s from the mid-1980s to 1995-2000. The exceptions are women in their late 20s and early 30s , who have … continental Europe. In addition, young women in the U.S. who were 26 and older saw bigger improvements in wage self …
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in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and USA. The main findings are that family and … found in USA. This holds true for both male and female siblings. A deeper analysis of Germany shows that family background … also plays an important role in explaining variations in family income, wages, education, and risk attitudes. …
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. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in a ecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …
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I study the labor market risks associated with being self-employed. I document that the self-employed are subject to larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given the self-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I analyze...
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in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data …; as are girls from low income families compared to middle and high income families. We use another data set to show that … who is diagnosed with an eating disorder is in accord with popular beliefs, suggesting that African American and low-income …
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