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A Century of Work and Leisure
Ramey, Valerie A. - 2006
Has leisure increased over the last century? Standard measures of hours worked suggest that it has. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive measure of non-leisure hours that includes market work, home production, commuting and schooling for the last 105 years. We also present empirical and...
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Less of a Luxury : The Rise of Recreation since 1888
Costa, Dora L. - 1997
I show that recreation has become much more egalitarian over the last hundred years by estimating recreational expenditure elasticities in 1888-1890, 1917-1919, 1935-1936, 1972-1973, and 1991. I find that expenditure elasticities have fallen from around two at the beginning of the century to...
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Beliefs that Entertain
Gandhi, Ashvin; Giuliano, Paola; Guan, Eric; Keefer, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Economic research on entertainment is scant despite its large share of time use. We test economic theories of belief-based utility in the context of video-game engagement. Using data on 2.8 million matches from League of Legends, we find evidence supporting reference-dependent preferences, loss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528335
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Is Happiness U-shaped Everywhere? Age and Subjective Well-being in 132 Countries
Blanchflower, David G. - 2020
satisfaction questions such as satisfaction with an individual's financial situation. Averaging across the 257 individual country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479165
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Happiness and the Quality of Government
Helliwell, John F. - 2020
World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479363
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GDP, Wellbeing, and Health : Thoughts on the 2017 Round of the International Comparison Program
Deaton, Angus - 2020
globalized world where international transfers of capital and property rights can have enormous effects on GDP, such as the 26 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482396
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Trust and Well-being
Helliwell, John F. - 2010
This paper presents new evidence linking trust and subjective well-being, based primarily on data from the Gallup World … surveys and the Gallup World Poll ask respondents to estimate the chances that a lost wallet would be returned to them if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462741
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Aging, religion, and health
Deaton, Angus S. - 2009
likely to be religious. In this paper, I use data from the Gallup World Poll to study the within and between country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463380
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International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being
Helliwell, John F. - 2009
This paper uses the first three waves of the Gallup World Poll to investigate differences across countries, cultures … and regions in the factors linked to life satisfaction, paying special attention to the social context. Our principal … findings are: First, using the larger pooled sample, we find that answers to the satisfaction with life and Cantril ladder …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463927
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Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond "Basic Needs"
Tella, Rafael Di - 2008
-lasting. Finally we study a cross section of nations in 2005 from the World Gallup Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464111