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-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … conditional on having the same income, there is no rural-urban happiness gap. Our results suggest that while further decline in …
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Economists increasingly accept that social norms have powerful effects on human behavior and outcomes. In recent history, one norm widely adhered to in most developed nations has been for men to be the primary breadwinner within mixed-gender households. As women have entered the labor market in...
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In this paper we estimate the causal effect of having brothers as compared to having sisters on individuals' happiness … individuals' happiness. Specifically, having one more brother rather than one sister increases one's self reported happiness by 0 …
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having grandchildren on the happiness of grandparents varies with the gender of their (own) single child. In line with our … grandmothers. In contrast, grandfathers' changes in happiness do not depend on their own child's gender. This result is explained …
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