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Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2001

This paper contributes to the literature on subjective well-being (SWB) by taking into account different aspects of life, called domains, such as health, financial situation, job, leisure, housing, and environment. We postulate a two-layer model where individual total SWB depends on the...

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". . . Do it with joy!" : subjective well-being outcomes of working in non-profit organizations

Binder, Martin - 2015

Working in non-profit organizations has been shown to be good for individuals' satisfaction with their jobs despite … lower incomes. This paper explores the impact of nonprofit work on life satisfaction more general for the British Household …

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Testing the easterlin hypothesis with panel data : the dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and the UK

Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - 2013 - This version: February, 2013

per capita and life satisfaction in either country (controlling for a variety of variables). Together with the evidence …

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Life events and subjective well-being : the case of having children

Pedersen, Peder J.; Dall Schmidt, Torben - 2014

The literature on Happiness and Subjective Well-Being (SWB) has been dominated by studies of the impact from income and labour market status - and the impact on happiness from changes in these determinants. It seems obvious to expect an impact from non-economic factors as well. In the present...

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Healthy, wealthy, wise, and happy? : an exploratory analysis of the interplay between aging and subjective well-being in low and middle income countries

Flores, Gabriela; Ingenhaag, Michael; Maurer, Jürgen - 2013

In this paper, we address the relationship between age and several dimension of subjective wellbeing. Whilst literature generally finds a U-shaped age-profile in subjective well-being, this agepattern might only hold after controlling for objective life circumstances. The observed U-shaped...

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Life satisfaction, ethnicity and neighbourhoods : is there an effect of neighbourhood ethnic composition on life satisfaction?

Knies, Gundi; Nandi, Alita; Platt, Lucinda - 2014

characteristics, we explore differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in UK. We test the hypothesis that minorities … areas with a larger proportion of own ethnic group promotes well-being. We find that satisfaction is lower among minorities …, ceteris paribus, but area concentration is associated with higher life satisfaction for certain groups. We discuss the …

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Longitudinal evidence for a midlife nadir in human well-being : results from four data sets

Cheng, Terence Chai; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, … - 2014

There is a large amount of cross-sectional evidence for a midlife low in the life cycle of human happiness and well-being (a "U shape"). Yet no genuinely longitudinal inquiry has uncovered evidence for a U-shaped pattern. Thus some researchers believe the U is a statistical artefact. We...

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Testing the Easterlin hypothesis with panel data : the dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and in the UK ; conference paper

Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - 2013 - This version: February, 2013

per capita and life satisfaction in either country (controlling for a variety of variables). Together with the evidence …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338942

The long-run consequences of Chernobyl : evidence on subjective well-being, mental health and welfare

Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - 2014

This paper assesses the long-run toll taken by a large-scale technological disaster on welfare, well-being and mental health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in radioactive fallout to respondents of a nationally...

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Causal linkages between work and life satisfaction and their determinants in a structural VAR approach

Coad, Alexander; Binder, Martin - 2014

Work and life satisfaction depends on a number of pecuniary and nonpecuniary factors at the workplace and determines …

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