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Racial diversity, immigrants and the well-being of residents : evidence from U.S. counties
Kuroki, Masanori - 2017
This paper presents empirical evidence that racial diversity and immigrant population at the local level tend to be associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the period 2005-2010. The magnitudes I find suggest that...
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Unhappiness and pain in modern America : a review essay, and further evidence, on Carol Graham's happiness for all?
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017
In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts … citizens have downwardly trended happiness levels. There is, however, one bright side to an otherwise dark story. The happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011770416
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Unhappiness and pain in modern America : a review essay, and further evidence, on Carol Graham' s Happiness for all?
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011783556
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Objective confirmation of subjective measures of human well-being: evidence from the USA
Oswald, Andrew J.; Wu, Stephen - 2010
A huge research literature, across the behavioral and social sciences, uses information on individuals' subjective well-being. These are responses to questions - asked by survey interviewers or medical personnel - such as how happy do you feel on a scale from 1 to 4? Yet there is little...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269621
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Is well-being U-shaped over the life cycle?
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2007
We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271880
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The relationship between financial asset returns and the well-being of US households
Smales, Lee A. - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 16/18, pp. 1184-1188
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Are pregnant women happier? : racial and ethnic differences in the relationship between pregnancy and life satisfaction in the United States
Hagstrom, Paul; Wu, Stephen - In: Review of Economics of the Household 14 (2016) 3, pp. 507-527
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Racial diversity, immigrants and the well-being of residents : evidence from US counties
Kuroki, Masanori - In: Journal of population economics 31 (2018) 1, pp. 107-133
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A transformative service research agenda : a study of workers' well-being
Edgar, Fiona; Geare, Alan James; Saunders, David; … - In: The service industries journal 37 (2017) 1/2, pp. 84-104
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Crossing boundaries and time : an exploration of time allocation, emotional well-being of immigrants in the United States
Coniglio, Nicola; Hoxhaj, Rezart; Lagravinese, Raffaele - 2023
, exploring the relationship between daily activities and feelings of happiness, stress, and meaningfulness. We analyze the entire … assessments, immigrants are more optimistic and perceive these activities as associated with higher levels of happiness and … meaningfulness. The study also finds evidence of emotional assimilation over time, with happiness disparities between immigrants and …
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