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Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019

We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects are heterogeneous by gender and marital status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects...

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"More children, more happiness?" : new evidence from elderly parents in China

Gao, Yanyan; Qu, Zhaopeng - 2019 - This version: July 2019

In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of 'more children, more happiness' by exploiting …

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The Easterlin Paradox

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020

The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … vitiates the otherwise positive effect of own-income growth on happiness. Critics of the Paradox mistakenly present the …

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Unemployment and subjective well-being

Suppa, Nicolai - 2021

This chapter summarizes the latest state of the art in economic research on unemployment and subjective well-being. Outcomes covered are general life satisfaction, affective well-being, and mental health. Special attention is paid to empirical evidence as obtained from popular panel data sets....

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Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people to be unhappy? : evidence from a six-country survey

Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2021

Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people unhappy? In this study, we use a recent survey from China, Japan, South Korea, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States to explore this question. We find a relatively large effect: a one per-mille point increase in the incidence of the COVID-19...

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Family matters: involuntary parental unemployment during childhood and subjective wellbeing later in life

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris N. - 2018

We are the first to examine how parental unemployment experienced during early-, mid- and late-childhood affects adult life satisfaction. Using German household panel data, we find that parental unemployment induced by plant closures and experienced during early (0-5 years) and late (11-15...

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Does retirement lead to life satisfaction? : causal evidence from fixed effect instrumental variable models

Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis; Taylor, Catherine L.; … - 2020

This paper presents robust evidence that retirement causally improves overall life satisfaction which is subsequently explained by improvements in satisfaction with one’s financial situation, free time, health, and participation in local community activities. Furthermore, while the positive...

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Markov switching models for happiness during apandemic : the New-Zealand experience

Rossouw, Stephanie; Greyling, Talita; Adhikari, Tamanna; … - 2020

This paper estimates Markov switching models with daily happiness (GNH) data from New Zealand for a period inclusive of … the Covid-19 global health pandemic. This helps us understand the dynamics of happiness due to an external shock and … states of happiness and estimate the duration in these states. In addition, as maximising happiness is a policy priority, we …

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Life satisfaction, pro-activity, and employment

Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Yilmaz, Levent - 2021

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper investigates how pro-active time-use (e.g., in sports/arts/socializing) relates to subjective well-being of the unemployed and their probability of finding a new job. Allowing for a variety of socio-demographic and...

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Self-employment and subjective well-being

Binder, Martin; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin - 2021

Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many individuals want to become self-employed due to the autonomy and exibility it brings. Using "subjective well-being" as a broad summary measure that evaluates an individual's experience of being self-employed, the...

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