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Healthy, wealthy, wise, and happy? : an exploratory analysis of the interplay between aging and subjective well-being in low and middle income countries
Flores, Gabriela; Ingenhaag, Michael; Maurer, Jürgen - 2013
In this paper, we address the relationship between age and several dimension of subjective wellbeing. Whilst literature generally finds a U-shaped age-profile in subjective well-being, this agepattern might only hold after controlling for objective life circumstances. The observed U-shaped...
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Paradox lost?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2016
happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a … happiness. For some countries their estimated growth rates of happiness and GDP are not trend rates, but those observed in … cyclical expansion or contraction. Mixing these short-term with long-term growth rates shifts a happiness-GDP regression from a …
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The Easterlin Paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020
The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … vitiates the otherwise positive effect of own-income growth on happiness. Critics of the Paradox mistakenly present the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391355
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The Easterlin paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020
The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … vitiates the otherwise positive effect of own-income growth on happiness. Critics of the Paradox mistakenly present the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012372750
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Do methodical traps lead to wrong development strategies for welfare : a multilevel approach considering heterogeneity across industrialized and developing countries
Puntscher, Sibylle; Walde, Janette F.; Tappeiner, Gottfried - 2016
Subjective well-being (SWB) is becoming increasingly important as welfare concept in both scientific research and politics, as it comprises additional welfare aspects compared to the GDP per capita. Consequently, it becomes important to explicitly identify its driving forces and clarify still...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417433
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Determinants of well-being for developing and developed countries and their role in policy-making : a panel data analysis
Ng, Jason Wei Jian; Santha Vaithilingam; Chua, Jing Moon - In: Malaysian journal of economic studies 56 (2019) 1, pp. 85-105
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Comparative determinants of quality of growth in developing countries
Asongu, Simplice; Asongu, Ndemaze - In: International journal of happiness and development 4 (2018) 1, pp. 65-89
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Equity and well-being : measurement and policy practice
Son, Hyun H. - 2011
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Taxation and inequality in developing countries : lessons from the recent experience of Latin America
Martorano, Bruno - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016
This paper aims to advance understanding about the relationship between taxation and inequality in developing countries … taxes promoted the progressivity of the tax system and contributed to the reduction of inequality. Yet, the effectiveness of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532297
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Cross-country heterogeneity and endogeneity bias in life satisfaction estimations - macro- and micro-level evidence for advanced, developing and transition countries
Krenz, Astrid - 2013
The past literature found evidence for the presence of endogeneity issues due to individuals' heterogeneity and omitted time-varying variables in the relationship between income and life satisfaction on the micro-level for the UK (Powdthavee (2010)). The aim of the present contribution is to put...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009744589