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Gender differences in life satisfaction and social participation
Humpert, Stephan - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 6 (2013) 3, pp. 123-142
The paper deals with the effects of social participation activities on life satisfaction. Using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) for 2010, marginal effects of binary probit estimations on life satisfaction are presented. Strong gender differences are observable. While sport, welfare or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010346726
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Gender differences in life satisfaction and social participation
Humpert, Stephan - 2013
This paper deals with the effects of social participation activities on life satisfaction. Using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) for 2010, I present gender specific differences for several social activities, such as club memberships of political, welfare, health or more leisure time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009741435
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Gender Differences in Life Satisfaction and Social Participation
Humpert, Stephan - 2014
The paper deals with the effects of social participation activities on life satisfaction. Using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) for 2010, marginal effects of binary probit estimations on life satisfaction are presented. Strong gender differences are observable. While sport, welfare or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149583
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Is envy harmful to a society's psychological health and wellbeing? : a longitudinal study of 18,000 adults
Mujcic, Redzo; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2018
envy. One view of modern society is that it is systematically developing a set of institutions - such as social media and … the psychological health of our citizens? This paper reports the first large-scale longitudinal research into envy and its … susceptible. Levels of envy fall as people grow older. This longitudinal finding is consistent with a cross-sectional pattern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946806
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Felicidad y salud: Una aproximación to well-being in the Rio de la Plata
Gerstenbluth, Mariana; Rossi, Máximo; Triunfo, Patricia - In: Estudios de Economía 35 (2008) 1, pp. 65-78
We analyze data on happiness for Argentina and Uruguay. The focus is put on self-reported health status as a key aspect … in increasing happiness levels. Then, the probabilty of being happy is estimated by probit models. Results show that the … main relationship is between happiness and health status. Whether this is a causal effect or a correlation, is not clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289481
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Non-employment, Ill-being and subjective well-being : (a review of literature on variables associated with subjective well-being)
Kapitány, Zsuzsa - 2009
Recent happiness studies by economists, sociologist and psychologists have produced many important new approaches and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919676
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What predicts a successful life? : a life-course model of well-being
Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca - 2013
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201282
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Happiness and health
Gerstenbluth, Mariana; Rossi, Máximo; Triunfo, Patricia - In: Estudios de economía 35 (2008) 1, pp. 65-78
We analyze data on happiness for Argentina and Uruguay. The focus is put on self-reported health status as a key aspect … in increasing happiness levels. Then, the probabilty of being happy is estimated by probit models. Results show that the … main relationship is between happiness and health status. Whether this is a causal effect or a correlation, is not clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003746941
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Welfare trends in Romania, 1990-2014
Toader, Şerban; Iancu, Victor; Olteanu, Dan - 2016
We aim to clarify how objective wellbeing in Romania, as expressed by statistical indicators, evolved during two and a half decades (1990-2014). We considered three main pillars of welfare - health, income & consumption, education - and we investigated their evolution for five CEE countries:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591947
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Health and Happiness in Uruguay
Gerstenbluth, Mariana; Jewell, R. Todd; Rossi, Maximo - 2010
In this paper we study the relationship between individual happiness and self reported health status, using the … highest correlation with happiness. In order to control for the observed heterogeneity of this variable, we estimate using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014190613