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institutional context variables, i.e. trust and the perception of freedom, have higher correlations with the two SWB variables used … estimates reconfirm the importance of trust and, in particular, of the perception of freedom. These variables explain more of …
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Many studies document a large negative effect of unemployment on happiness. Recent research has looked into factors related to impacts on happiness, such as adaptation, social work norms, social capital, religious beliefs, and psychological resources. Getting unemployed people back to work can...
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In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
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large loss of satisfaction experienced by individuals in old age. …
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This paper presents evidence on causal influence of happiness on social capital and trust using German Socio-Economic Panel. Exploiting the unexplained cross-sectional variation in individual happiness (residuals) in 1984 to eliminate the endogeneity problem, the paper finds that happier people...
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Using individual-level data for China,South Korea, and Japan for2006, this research examines how life satisfaction for … satisfaction of males is barely affected by a child of the relationship, whereas the life satisfaction of females with a young …. There is also a gender differential regarding the effect of young children on life satisfaction. Furthermore, the more …
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