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The long-term impact of paid parental leave on maternal health and subjective well-being
Heisig, Katharina - 2023
physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a …-term physical and mental health and subjective well-being. There is weak, but not robust, evidence for increased satisfaction with …
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Is a sorrow shared a sorrow doubled? : parental unemployment and the life satisfaction of adolescent children
Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Lücke, Christine - 2023
This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their children's life satisfaction. When controlling...
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The baby year parental leave reform in the GDR and its impact on children's long-term life satisfaction
Heisig, Katharina; Zierow, Larissa - 2019
positive development of personality, health factors, schooling or labor market outcomes. Our results suggest that the increase … backgrounds and boys. For individuals from high socioeconomic backgrounds, it might be driven by a better health. …
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Social contacts, unemployment, and experienced well-being : evidence from tim-use data
Thi Truong An Hoang; Knabe, Andreas - 2022
We use the UK Time-Use Survey 2014/15 to analyze how differences in the frequency and intensity of social contacts contribute to the gap in experienced well-being between employed and unemployed persons. We observe that people generally enjoy being with others more than being alone. The...
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The long-run consequences of Chernobyl : evidence on subjective well-being, mental health and welfare
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - 2014
health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370275
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The application of the capability approach to high-income OECD countries : a preliminary survey
Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich - 2011
The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...
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A happy way to grow old? : grandparent caregiving, quality of life and life satisfaction
Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi - 2019
Utilizing the 2015 wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) that covers 7045 households, we … looked after. The favorable effects on mental health seem limited to grandparents living in rural areas and apply especially … rather than being incurred indirectly due to better health or financial situation of grandparents. …
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The cost of well-being
Pettini, Anna; Patrizi, Vincenzo; Resce, Giuliano - 2015
Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...
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Happiness and religion
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tunali, Çiğdem Börke - 2015
We use four ways of the European Social Survey, covering 2000 to 2008, to analyze the effect of religion on happiness … lowers happiness while the latter raises it. We interpret this as evidence that the tangible aspects of religion (such as … abiding by restrictions on consumption and behavior) decrease happiness while the spiritual aspects increase it. We also find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295799
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Time use, unemployment, and well-being : an empirical analysis using British time-use data
Hoang, Thi Truong An; Knabe, Andreas - 2019
We use nationally representative data from the UK Time-Use Survey 2014/2015 to investigate how a person's employment status is related to time use and cognitive and affective dimensions of subjective well-being. We find that unemployed persons report substantially lower levels of life...
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