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Top incomes and human well-being around the world

Burkhauser, Richard V.; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; … - 2016

The share of income held by the top 1 percent in many countries around the world has been rising persistently over the last 30 years. But we continue to know little about how the rising top income shares affect human well-being. This study combines the latest data to examine the relationship...

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Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries?

Clark, Andrew - 2011

thresholds. Such regime changes are visible to the eye through the lens of subjective satisfaction measures. The case of … Transition countries is particularly impressive in this respect: average life satisfaction scores closely mirrored changes in GDP …

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Life Satisfaction, Subjective Wealth, and Adaptation to Vulnerability in the Russian Federation During 2002-2017

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020

decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … satisfaction with own economic conditions, work contract, job, pay, and career. Some evidence indicates that despite little … differences between urban and rural areas with life satisfaction, rural areas exhibit a stronger lack of adaptation for subjective …

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The (Subjective) Well-Being Cost of Fiscal Policy Shocks

Eklou, Kodjovi - 2020

Do discretionary spending cuts and tax increases hurt social well-being? To answer this question, we combine subjective well-being data covering over half a million of individuals across 13 European countries, with macroeconomic data on fiscal consolidations. We find that fiscal consolidations...

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Big-City Life (Dis)satisfaction? The Effect of Urban Living on Subjective Well-Being

Loschiavo, David - 2019

This paper investigates the effect of big-city life on individuals' well-being. Combining data on Italian municipalities' characteristics with individual-level survey data, I find that city size negatively affects subjective well-being. This association is not driven by omitted variable bias or...

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A Happy Choice : Wellbeing as the Goal of Government

Frijters, Paul - 2019

In this article, we lay out the basic case for wellbeing as the goal of government. We briefly review the history of this idea, which goes back to the ancient Greeks and was the acknowledged ideal of the Enlightenment. We then discuss possible measures on which a wellbeing orientation could be...

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Emigration, Remittances and the Subjective Well-Being of Those Staying Behind

Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2018

Despite growing academic and policy interest in the subjective well-being consequences of emigration for those left behind, existing studies have focused on single origin countries or specific world regions. Our study is the first to offer a global perspective on the well-being consequences of...

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Income and Subjective Well-Being : Evidence from Singapore's First National Non-Contributory Pension

Chen, Yanying - 2018

satisfaction of recipients, and appeared to be driven by social, household income, and economic satisfaction. Consistent with the …

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Do gender, child, and parent characteristics contribute to intergenerational subjective well-being mobility? : evidence from Russia during 1994-2019

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022

traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility-as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction …

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Do gender, child, and parent characteristics contribute to intergenerational subjective well-being mobility? : evidence from Russia during 1994-2019

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022

traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility - as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction … - exists. While daughters have less subjective wealth and life satisfaction than sons, daughters have higher transmission of …

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