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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, 1993-2022, Eurobarometer 1991-2022, the UK Covid Social Survey Panel, 2020-2022, the European Social Survey 2002-2020 and the IPSOS Happiness Survey 2018-2023 - we show...
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Putting subjective well-being to use for ex-ante policy evaluation
Jara, H. Xavier; Schokkaert, Erik - 2016
income distribution. However, it has become increasingly recognised, both at the academic and political level, that focusing … purely on income provides a limited picture of social progress. We illustrate how ex-ante policy evaluation can be performed …
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The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health and subjective well-being of workers: an event study based on high-frequency panel data
Schmidtke, Julia; Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; … - 2021
Using individual monthly panel data from December 2018 to December 2020, we estimate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and two lockdowns on the mental health and subjective well-being of German workers. Employing an event-study design using individual-specific fixed effects, we find that the...
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The effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the mental health and subjective wellbeing of workers: an event study based on high-frequency panel data
Schmidtke, Julia; Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; … - 2021
das subjektive Wohlbefinden von Beschäftigten in Deutschland. Hierzu wird mit Daten eines monatlichen Panels von … Arbeitnehmern erheblich reduziert hat. Auch das momentane Glücksempfinden und die Lebenszufriedenheit nehmen als Reaktion auf Covid …
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The Consumption, Income, and Well-Being of Single Mother Headed Families 25 Years After Welfare Reform
Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce; Sullivan, James X. - 2021
affected by welfare reform and other policy changes of the 1990s. We focus on consumption as well as other indicators including … components of consumption, measures of housing quality, and health insurance coverage. The results provide strong evidence that … the material circumstances of single mothers improved in the decades following welfare reform. The consumption of the most …
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Nach der Einführung von Arbeitslosengeld II: deutlich mehr Verlierer als Gewinner unter den Hilfeempfängern
Goebel, Jan; Richter, Maria - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 50, pp. 753-761
bei den verfügbaren Einkommen der Leistungsbezieher. Mehr als die Hälfte der Personen in Haushalten, die zuvor entweder …
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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 pandemic on most measures and on four bordering countries to Ukraine after the Russian invasion in 2022. However, the movements are not large and are not apparent everywhere....
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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, 1993-2022, Eurobarometer 1991-2022, the UK Covid Social Survey Panel, 2020-2022, the European Social Survey 2002-2020 and the IPSOS Happiness Survey 2018-2023 we show...
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Delving into the eye of the cyclone to quantify the cascading impacts of natural disasters on life satisfaction
Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis - 2024
The catastrophic effects of natural disasters on social and economic systems are well-documented; however, their impacts on individual life satisfaction remain insufficiently understood. This study pioneers a causal analysis of cyclones' impacts on Australians' life satisfaction, using local...
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The effects of the Affordable Care Act medicaid expansion on subjective well-being
Kim, Seonghoon; Koh, Kanghyock - 2019
-being of individuals in the United States. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that the expansion has … significantly improved the overall life satisfaction of low-income non-elderly adults. Various sensitivity checks and falsification …
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