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Social Capital, Trust and Well-being in the Evaluation of Wealth
Hamilton, Kirk - 2016
social capital as wealth. This is used to argue, given what we have learned in the literature on social capital, that the … World Poll, we present a range of estimates of social trust's wealth-equivalent values. The estimates of the wealth embodied … social trust is an important component of total wealth in all regions and country groupings, there are nonetheless big …
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How's Life at Home? New Evidence on Marriage and the Set Point for Happiness
Grover, Shawn - 2014
Subjective well-being research has often found that marriage is positively correlated with well-being. Some have argued that this correlation may be result of happier people being more likely to marry. Others have presented evidence suggesting that the well-being benefits of marriage are...
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The Welfare Costs of Well-being Inequality
Goff, Leonard - 2016
If satisfaction with life (SWL) is used to measure individual wellbeing, the dispersion of its distribution offers a comprehensive measure of inequality that subsumes the many and various component forms of inequality in particular domains. The cross-country correlation between the level of SWL...
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