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Do more of those in misery suffer from poverty, unemployment or mental illness?

Fleche, Sarah; Layard, Peter R. G. - 2015

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

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Everybody's a victim? : global terror, well-being and political attitudes

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Elsayed, Ahmed - 2018

Terror has become a global issue. Terror acts perpetuated by religious, nationalist or political groups around the globe can propagate distress rapidly through different channels and possibly change political attitudes. This paper suggests the first evaluation of the impact of global terror on...

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Do fathers have son preference in the United States? : evidence from paternal subjective well-being

Song, Younghwan; Gao, Jia - 2022

Using data drawn from 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Modules, this paper examines the existence of son preference among fathers in the U.S. by estimating the effect of child gender on the fathers' subjective well-being. A wide range of subjective well-being measures,...

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Economic consequences of mispredicting utility

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2013

In a simple conceptual framework, we organize a multitude of phenomena related to the (mis)prediction of utility. Consequences in terms of distorted choices and lower wellbeing emerge if people have to trade-off between alternatives that are characterized by attributes satisfying extrinsic...

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The paradox of declining female happiness

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2009

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is...

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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013

Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...

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Well-being, poverty and labor income taxation : theory and application to Europe and the U.S.

Maniquet, François; Neumann, Dirk - 2016

tax schemes that alleviate poverty. To avoid conflict with individual well-being, we require redistribution to take place … between agents on both sides of the poverty line provided they have the same labor time. This requirement is combined with … yields the following evaluation criterion: tax schemes should minimize the labor time required to reach the poverty line. We …

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Partial identification of economic mobility : with an application to the United States

Millimet, Daniel L.; Li, Hao; Roychowdhury, Punarjit - 2019

The economic mobility of individuals and households is of fundamental interest. While many measures of economic mobility exist, reliance on transition matrices remains pervasive due to simplicity and ease of interpretation. However, estimation of transition matrices is complicated by the...

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Unhappiness and pain in modern America : a review essay, and further evidence, on Carol Graham's happiness for all?

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017

In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts forward is an important one. Here we review the intellectual case and offer additional evidence. We conclude broadly on the author's side. Strikingly, Americans appear to be in...

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Life satisfaction

Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009

We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global life satisfaction of happiness is well-described by four domains: job or daily activities, social...

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