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Minding the happiness gap : political institutions and perceived quality of life in transition

Nikolova, Milena - 2015

Along with political and economic changes, the fall of the socialist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union brought about fundamental institutional reforms. Several studies have examined the causes of the increasing unhappiness which accompanied the transition process,...

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Family size and subjective well-being in Europe : do more children make us (un)happy?

Pertold-Gebická, Barbara; Špolcová, Dominika - 2019

With the goal to shed more light on fertility drivers in Europe, we estimate the causal relationship between the number … dissatisfaction with job. Region-specific fertility rates are correlated with fathers' marginal utility of additional child. …

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Reflections on the search for fertility effects on happiness

Kravdal, Øystein - 2013

. One strand of this research focuses on the implications of fertility for the parents' level of self-reported well-being or … the fertility-happiness research. In addition, there is a more "standard" selection problem: factors with implications for … problems, so reported results should be interpreted very cautiously. -- fertility ; happiness ; effect heterogeneity ; method …

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Family size and subjective well-being in Europe: Do more children make us (un)happy?

Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara; Spolcova, Dominika - 2019

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Minding the Happiness Gap: Political Institutions and Perceived Quality of Life in Transition

Nikolova, Milena - 2015

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Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016

We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern histories, there is no evidence on how it affected the...

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The happiness gap between transition and non-transition countries

Skoglund, Ekaterina - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)

Since 1989, post-communist countries have undergone profound changes in their political, economic, and social structures and institutions. Across a range of development outcomes—in terms of the speed and success of reforms—transition is an “unhappy process.” The “happiness gap,” i.e....

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Does joining the EU make you happy? : evidence from Bulgaria and Romania

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016

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Do Fathers Have Son Preference in the United States? Evidence from Paternal Subjective Well-Being

Song, Younghwan; Gao, Jia - 2022

Using data drawn from 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Modules, this paper examines the existence of son preference among fathers in the U.S. by estimating the effect of child gender on the fathers' subjective well-being. A wide range of subjective well-being measures,...

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Happiness in Old Age: The Daughter Connection

Sukontamarn, Pataporn; Asadullah, Niaz; … - 2023

legacy of sex preference in fertility. We employ nationally representative data to examine the association between old …

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