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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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Life Satisfaction in Urban China : Components and Determinants

Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - 2021

Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by … international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in … and political participation raise life satisfaction. People appear fairly satisfied with economic growth and low inflation …

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Work and Well-Being of Informal Caregivers in Europe

Heger, Dörte - 2015

Informal caregivers provide valuable services to elderly persons with long-term care needs, but the consequences of caregiving on caregivers are not yet fully understood. This paper illustrates the interrelation between caregiving and caregivers' labour force participation, cognitive ability,...

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Work and Well-Being of Informal Caregivers in Europe

Heger, Dörte - 2015

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How does female entrepreneurship affect happiness?

Chikh-Amnache, Sabrina; Chikh-Boubaghela, Nabila; … - In: Central European economic journal 10 (2023) 57, pp. 180-197

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the correlation between female entrepreneurship and happiness within the … female entrepreneurship and five control variables measuring the determinants of happiness. The method used for analysis is …, making it suitable for studying the heterogeneous effects of female entrepreneurship on happiness across happiness quantiles …

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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...

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Antidepressants for economists and business-school researchers : an introduction and review

Katolik, Aleksandra; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017

The antidepressant pill is an important modern commodity. Its growing role in the world has been largely ignored by researchers in economics departments and business schools. Scholars may be unaware how many citizens and employees now take these pills. Here we review some of the social-science...

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The midlife crisis

Giuntella, Osea; McManus, Sally; Mujcic, Redzo; Oswald, … - 2022

, approximately 500,000 individuals. It checks that the key results are not due to cohort effects. Nor do we rely on simple life-satisfaction …

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Miserable migrants? : natural experiment evidence on international migration and objective and subjective well-being

Stillman, Steven; Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J.; … - 2012

expenditures. Impacts on subjective well-being are complex, with mental health improving but happiness declining, self …

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Income or Consumption : Which Better Predicts Subjective Wellbeing?

Carver, Tom - 2016

The positive relationship between income and subjective wellbeing has been well documented. However, work assessing the relationship of alternative material wellbeing metrics to subjective wellbeing is limited. Consistent with the permanent income hypothesis, we find that a consumption measure...

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