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Getting warmer : fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being
Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021
fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong … deprivation indicators as well as in the case of self-reported generic measures of physical health. Lifestyle and chronic health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597703
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Parental gender stereotypes and student wellbeing in China
Chu, Shuai; Zeng, Xiangquan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect student's educational performance, who are challenged by parental expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are strongly more depressed, feeling blue, unhappy, not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316309
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COVID-19, lockdowns and well-being : evidence from Google trends
Brodeur, Abel; Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; … - 2020
sadness, while searches for stress, suicide and divorce on the contrary fell. Our results suggest that people's mental health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221742
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Exploring the spillover effects of internally displaced settlements on the wellbeing of children of the locales
Uchenna, Efobi; Joseph, Ajefu - 2024
This research examines the effect of internally displaced persons (IDPs) resettlement on the anthropometric outcomes of the host community's children in Nigeria. Our identification strategy characterizes affected children based on distance heterogeneities between the household and the closest...
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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 … representative survey data from the 2015 China Health and Retirement Longitude Survey, the results from both the ordinary least …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152172
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The effect of immigration on natives' well-being in the European Union
O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2019 - Version: May 24, 2019
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Europe today, yet little is known about the overall effect of its multiple impacts. The analysis suggests natives need not worry. Increasing immigrant population shares have no statistically significant effects on natives' well-being in 28...
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Delving into the eye of the cyclone to quantify the cascading impacts of natural disasters on life satisfaction
Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis - 2024
residences, significantly reduce overall life satisfaction and specific domains like community, personal safety, and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580648
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The ugly truth about social welfare payments and households' subjective well-being
Adhikari, Tamanna; Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanie - 2021
Social welfare payments (SWP) were designed with policy priority to transfer revenue to vulnerable groups, thereby addressing poverty and inequality. Previous studies have shown that SWPs alleviate poverty, but investigating their effect on well-being is sparse. We investigate the relationship...
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Children, unhappiness and family finances
Blanchflower, David G.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2020 - This version: May 12th 2020
The common finding of a zero or negative correlation between the presence of children and parental well-being continues to generate research interest. We here consider international data, including well over one million observations on Europeans from eleven years of Eurobarometer surveys, and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222035
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Sometimes your best just ain't good enough : the worldwide evidence on subjective well-being efficiency
Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2020
Most of the studies on subjective well-being focus on the determinants of absolute life satisfaction or happiness … nations efficiently transform their endowments (income, education, and health) into subjective well- being and which factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241824