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Women's optimism, the gender happiness equaliser : a case of South Africa

Greyling, Talita; Fisher, Bianca - 2020

This paper investigates whether there is co-movement in subjective wellbeing (swb) gender gaps and objective wellbeing (owb) gender gaps over time and whether swb gender gaps are caused by gender differences in endowments or by the different ways men and women value the pre-mentioned. This is...

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Neo-humanism and COVID-19 : opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021 - Version: 20 April 2021

A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...

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Perceived wage inequality, demand for wage equalization, and life satisfaction

Hajdu, Gábor - 2024

satisfaction. Using the large dataset of the Hungarian Microcensus of 2016 and a measure that quantifies perceived inequality based … equalization tend to report lower life satisfaction. Furthermore, I show that the negative association between perceived wage … inequality and life satisfaction is stronger among those who demand greater wage equalization. The results suggest that the …

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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

impacts on individual life satisfaction remain insufficiently understood. This study pioneers a causal analysis of cyclones …' impacts on Australians' life satisfaction, using local cyclones as natural experiments. Analysing over two decades of data … residences, significantly reduce overall life satisfaction and specific domains like community, personal safety, and health …

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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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Happiness in the lab : what can be learned about subjective well-being from experiments?

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Goff, Sandra H. - 2021

The recent surge in analyses of subjective well-being (SWB) and the economics of happiness using large observational datasets has generated stylized facts about the relationship between SWB and various correlates. Because such studies are mostly concerned with the determinants of SWB, the...

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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 …

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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...

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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 for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point...

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What women want (their men to do) : housework and satisfaction in Australian households

Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018

decisions and satisfaction. Using Australian data spanning the years 2001-2014, we employ a two-stage estimation procedure to … examine how deviations from housework norms relate to couples' satisfaction. We find that satisfaction is negatively affected … by predicted housework time, and that women's satisfaction, but not men's, is robustly affected by their partners …

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