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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022
We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include models accounting for several confounders, regional and...
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Eudaimonic happiness as a leading health indicator : cross-country European evidence
Becchetti, Leonardo; Bachelet, Maria Jua; Pisani, Fabio - In: Applied economics 52 (2020) 43, pp. 4726-4744
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to …
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How persistent is life satisfaction? : evidence from European immigration
Berggren, Niclas; Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian; … - 2018
This paper asks to what extent life satisfaction among immigrants remains similar to that in their country of origin … satisfaction from the country of origin is strong for migrants from developed countries and close to zero for migrants from …
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Pleasure, meaning or spirituality : cross-cultural differences in orientations to happiness across 12 countries
Gaston-Breton, Charlotte; Lemoine, Jérémy E.; Voyer, … - In: Journal of business research : JBR 134 (2021), pp. 1-12
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Were COVID and the Great Recession well-being reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
Using micro-data on six surveys - the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System … the IPSOS Happiness Survey 2018-2023 - we show individuals' reports of subjective wellbeing in Europe did decline in the … the annual data from the United Nation's Humasn Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World Happiness Report from …
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Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-being Reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We show individuals' reports of subjective well being in Europe did decline in the Great Recession and during the Covid …' expectations of the economy and the labor market. Neither the UN's Human Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World … Happiness Report from the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last …
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Distance work and life satisfaction after the COVID-19 pandemics
Becchetti, Leonardo; Conzo, Gianluigi; Pisani, Fabio - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014428669
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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021
, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what is happening to the incomes of others. An increase in the incomes …
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Coronavirus disease 2019
Adabor, Opoku - In: International review of applied economics 38 (2024) 3, pp. 318-336
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