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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 female...

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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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The effect of compulsory service on life satisfaction and its channels

Collischon, Matthias; Eberl, Andreas; Jahn, Kerstin - 2018

Compulsory military service is still a prominent feature of young people's careers in many countries. We use the abolition of compulsory military and civil service for males in 2011 in Germany as a natural experiment to identify effects of institutionalized career disruptions on life...

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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...

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The Shadow Prices of Voluntary Caregiving: Using Panel Data of Well-Being to Estimate the Cost of Informal Care

McDonald, Rebecca; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2018

This paper uses the wellbeing valuation (WV) approach to estimate and monetize the wellbeing impacts of informal care provision on caregivers. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from the U.K., we address two challenging methodological issues related to the economic valuation of...

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Subjective Well-Being, Politics and Political Economy

Frey, Bruno S. - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 147 (2011) 4, pp. 397-415

Happiness research has significantly extended our knowledge about the factors determining individual well …-being. Several prominent scholars concluded that governments should engage in maximizing happiness. This approach is based on a … are aware of the Manipulation Principle stating that government tends to distort official happiness indicators in its …

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Imitative obesity and relative utility

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Van … - 2009

If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...

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Inequality aversion and risk attitudes

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Ramos, Xavier - 2010

Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...

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On gender inequality and life satisfaction: Does discrimination matter?

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2007

This paper analyzes the impact of gender discrimination on individual life satisfaction using a cross-section of 66 countries. We employ measures of discrimination of women in the economy, in politics, and in society more generally. According to our results, discrimination in politics is...

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Putting different price tags on the same health condition: Re-evaluating the well-being valuation approach

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; van den Berg, Bernard - 2011

Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new well-being valuation method. Yet there is currently no clear consensus on what the best measure of individual's experience may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on...

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