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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being

Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca; Layard, Richard; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...

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Reference Dependent Financial Satification over the Course of the Celtic Tiger : A Panel Analysis Utilising the Living in Ireland Survey 1994-2001

Delaney, Liam; Newman, Carol; Nolan, Brian - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2006

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The Distribution of Well-Being and Income within the Household

Bonke, Jens; Browning, Martin - Centre for Applied Microeconometrics (CAM), Økonomisk … - 2003

Several papers in the literature on intra-household allocation have suggested that various household ‘outcomes’, such as demands, saving, child health etc., depend on the distribution of income within the household. Implicit in these analyses is that a higher share of household income for...

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How Are You, My Dearest Mozart? Well-being and Creativity of Three Famous Composers Based on their Letters

Borowiecki, Karol Jan - Institut for Virksomhedsledelse og Økonomi, Syddansk … - 2013

The well-being of a person is reflected in the language used. Building on 1,400 letters written by three famous music composers, I obtain well-being indices that span their lifetime. The validity of this methodology is shown by linking the indices with biographical information and through...

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The role of socio-demographic factors on self-rated happiness: The case of Malaysia

Cheah, Yong Kang; Tang, Chor Foon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This study examines the role of socio-demographic determinants on individual’s level of happiness. Primary survey data on Penang, Malaysia is used for analysis. Based on the findings, being married and Malay are associated with higher probability of feeling very happy or happy. Nevertheless,...

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The contribution of sport to national pride and well-being: An international perspective

Pawlowski, Tim; Downward, Paul; Rasciute, Simona - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2011

As well as being a growing academic literature, SWB is now firmly on the public policy agenda. Likewise, the sports industry is viewed as being of growing economic significance, reflected in its promotion in public policy. This paper explores the impact of engagement with sports on individual...

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Measuring economic ill-being: Evidence for the ‘Philippine Misery Index’

Beja, Edsel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper uses the gap between the level of an economy’s well-being and that of a people’s well-being as a measure of the overall economic ill-being in a society. In particular, it argues that such disparity is measurable using objective measures of and subjective measures for inflation and...

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Life is Getting Worse in ESS Data: Is This Due to Micro or Macro Factors?

Preziosi, Nadir - European Economic Studies, College of Europe - 2013

unemployment, inflation or income inequality. Such aggregate factors could impact individual happiness per se because they are … related to the perception of an aggregate risk of unemployment or income fall. In order to strengthen this interpretation … proposes an evaluation of the welfare cost of unemployment and inflation (in terms of happiness and life satisfaction), in each …

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Happiness in Eastern Europe

Hayo, Bernd - EconWPA - 2004

unemployment can explain more of the cross- country variation in happiness than income per capita. …

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Self-reported satisfaction and the economic crisis of 2007-10: Or how people in the UK and Germany perceive a severe cyclical downturn

Mertens, Antje; Beblo, Miriam - 2013

of our analyses is on the pattern of life, job and health satisfaction over time and the influence of unemployment rates …. Looking at the impact of macroeconomic indicators such as GDP growth, inflation and unemployment, we find mostly diverse … between self-reported satisfaction and the regional unemployment rate: The higher regional unemployment the more satisfied …

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