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does not diminish as incomes rise. If there is a satiation point, we are yet to reach it. …
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-log and does not diminish as incomes rise. If there is a satiation point, we are yet to reach it. …
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happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader … across countries, and find no evidence of a satiation point beyond which wealthier countries have no further increases in … in subjective well-being and income over time within countries we find economic growth associated with rising happiness …
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for a satiation point above which income and well-being are no longer related. …
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happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader … across countries, and find no evidence of a satiation point beyond which wealthier countries have no further increases in … in subjective well-being and income over time within countries we find economic growth associated with rising happiness …
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In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … this greater happiness homogeneity. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, offering a …
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This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that the time trend in average happiness is flat during episodes of long …-run income growth. This mean-preserving declining spread in happiness comes about via falls in both the share of individuals who …
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This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that the time trend in average happiness is flat during episodes of long …-run income growth. This mean-preserving declining spread in happiness comes about via falls in both the share of individuals who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287588
This paper uses new Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data to provide the first estimates of well-being across the states of America. From this sample of 1.3 million US citizens, we analyze measures of life satisfaction and mental health. Adjusting for people's characteristics, states...
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This paper argues - in line with the proposals of the recent Stiglitz Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress - that we should now be measuring a nation's emotional prosperity rather than its economic prosperity (that is, we ought to focus on the level of mental...
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