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The ugly truth about social welfare payments and households' subjective well-being
Adhikari, Tamanna; Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanie - 2021
Social welfare payments (SWP) were designed with policy priority to transfer revenue to vulnerable groups, thereby addressing poverty and inequality. Previous studies have shown that SWPs alleviate poverty, but investigating their effect on well-being is sparse. We investigate the relationship...
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Paradox lost?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2016
happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a … happiness. For some countries their estimated growth rates of happiness and GDP are not trend rates, but those observed in … cyclical expansion or contraction. Mixing these short-term with long-term growth rates shifts a happiness-GDP regression from a …
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Quantifying the intangible impact of the olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
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The effects of the Affordable Care Act medicaid expansion on subjective well-being
Kim, Seonghoon; Koh, Kanghyock - 2019
This study analyzes the effects of the 2014 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion on the subjective well-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...
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Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179654
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Does health insurance make people happier? : evidence from Massachusetts' healthcare reform
Kim, Seonghoon; Koh, Kanghyock - 2018
We study the effects of Massachusetts' healthcare reform on individuals' subjective well-being. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we find that the reform significantly improved Massachusetts residents' overall life-satisfaction. This result is robust to various...
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Global development and happiness : how can data on subjective wellbeing inform development theory and practice?
Kroll, Christian - 2013
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Happiness and work
Krause, Annabelle - 2014
The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The … the literature investigates potential driving effects of happiness on labor market outcomes. This article will give an …
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The Easterlin Paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020
The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … vitiates the otherwise positive effect of own-income growth on happiness. Critics of the Paradox mistakenly present the …
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