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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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Measuring nuclear power plant externalities using life satisfaction data : a spatial analysis for Switzerland
Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2015
Conceptualizing externalities from perceived nuclear risk as being related to distance from nuclear facilities, we estimate the relationship between Swiss citizens' life satisfaction (understood as a proxy of utility) and the distance of their place of residence from the nearest nuclear power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470383
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The development and happiness of very young children
Anand, Paul; Roope, Laurence - 2016
is not explicit in Sen's original set-up, but is key to the development and happiness of young children. A second set of … association with parenting inputs is stronger. Thirdly, we report happiness regressions for the children which seem to suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540021
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Subjective well-being in China, 2005-2010 : the role of relative income, gender and location
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Xiao, Saizi; Yeoh, Kok Kheng - 2016
-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … conditional on having the same income, there is no rural-urban happiness gap. Our results suggest that while further decline in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449772
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The baby year parental leave reform in the GDR and its impact on children's long-term life satisfaction
Heisig, Katharina; Zierow, Larissa - 2019
This article investigates the effects of an increase in paid parental leave - twelve months instead of six months - on children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), allows us to circumvent problems of selection of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064990
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The baby year parental leave reform in the GDR and its impact on children's long-term life satisfaction
Heisig, Katharina; Zierow, Larissa - 2019
This article investigates the effects of an increase in paid parental leave - twelve months instead of six months - on children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), allows us to circumvent problems of selection of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123526
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Female suicide and the concept of the midlife crisis
Oswald, Andrew J.; Tohamy, Ahmed - 2017
The idea that humans - especially females - are prone to some form of 'midlife crisis' has typically been viewed with extreme skepticism by social scientists. We point out the potential equivalence between an age U-shape in a new well-being literature and a matching hill-shape in especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647669
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The development and happiness of very young children
Anand, Paul; Roope, Laurence - 2016
activities which is not explicit in Sen’s original set-up, but is key to the development and happiness of young children. A … some cases the association with parenting inputs is stronger. Thirdly, we report happiness regressions for the children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557329
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Lockdowns, loneliness and life satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2020
their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases …. Assuming that lockdowns constrain married people to spend time solely with their spouses, simulations show that their happiness … this inference. Simulations demonstrate clearly that, assuming lockdowns impose solitude on singles, their happiness was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201649
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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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