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Life satisfaction and material well-being of children in the UK
Knies, Gundi - 2012
Life satisfaction is increasingly recognised as a desirable individual outcome. Policy attention with respect to child … that child life satisfaction is not associated with household income (poverty), or with a set of new material deprivation …
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Isolation and well-being in the time of lockdown
Bourdeau-Lepage, Lise; Kotosz, Balázs - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 8 (2021) 2, pp. 83-97
In response to the Covid 19 health crisis, the French government has imposed various measures, referred to as social-distancing measures, including a lockdown with the primary objective of reducing face-to-face interactions between people in order to limit the spread of the virus. This paper...
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Relative income and happiness : an Experiment
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Houser, Daniel; Diaz, Lina - 2018
John Stuart Mill claimed that "men do not desire merely to be rich, but richer than other men." Do people desire to be richer than others? Or is it that people desire favorable comparisons to others more generally, and being richer is merely a proxy for this ineffable relativity? We conduct an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902869
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The effects of international migration on the well-being of native populations in Europe
Betz, William; Simpson, Nicole B. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-21
Very little is understood about how immigrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being of natives. We use the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786218
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A "happiness test" for the new measures of national well-being : how much better than GDP are they?
Delhey, Jan; Kroll, Christian - 2012
data for 34 OECD societies, we can show that from a happiness perspective, there is-surprisingly-little wrong with the GDP … search for a new, widely accepted, internationally comparable measure of well-being. -- Better Life Index ; GDP ; happiness …Across the globe there is growing skepticism about the usefulness of GDP as a measure of national well …
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Neighbourhood deprivation, life satisfaction and earnings : comparative analyses of neighbourhood effects at bespoke scales
Knies, Gundi; Melo, Patricia C.; Zhang, Min - 2020
neighbourhood-specific confounding effects. Our findings suggest that the effect of neighbourhood deprivation on life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153495
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Who got the brexit blues? : using a quasi-experiment to show the effect of brexit on subjective wellbeing in the uk
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Plagnol, Anke C.; Frijters, Paul; … - 2017
preference for leaving the EU were 0.14 points less satisfied with life pre-referendum, with both misery (life satisfaction below … preferences enjoyed a life satisfaction rise of 0.16 points, while there was a drop of 0.15 points for those preferring to remain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011775929
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Como as famílias brasileiras avaliam a suficiência de seus rendimentos segundo a POF 2002 - 2003 : implicações para um índice de qualidade de vida
Pessoa, Marcelo de Sales; Silveira, Marcos Antonio … - 2010
The work investigates the demographic, economic and social determinants of the degree of satisfaction of the Brazilian … considerable proportion of the variation of the degree of satisfaction of the Brazilian househols with their income. Another …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923196
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Subjective well-being and relative poverty in rural Bangladesh
Asadullah, Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2012
-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We … do so by combining household data with population census and village survey records. Our results show that conditional on … own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction levels when they experience an increase in their income over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009539218
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Life Satisfaction Over Time Among Rural Low-Income Mothers
Mammen, Sheila - 2009
The satisfaction with life (SWL) among rural low-income mothers was assessed using a sample of 163 mothers who … capital (health, human, personal and social) as well as the mothers' levels of life satisfaction from prior years. Nearly two …-thirds of the rural mothers were satisfied with their life in all three years. Their level of satisfaction appeared to be …
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