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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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Subjective well-being, income, and ethnicity inSlovakia

Želinský, Tomáš - 2021

that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher …

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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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A measure of well-being efficiency based on the World Happiness Report

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

We propose a measure of well-being efficiency to assess countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective well-being (Cantril ladder). We use the six inputs (real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity) identified in...

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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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Life satisfaction, subjective wealth, and adaptation to vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017

Dang, Hai-Anh; Abanokova, Kseniya; Lokshin, Michael - 2020

decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … satisfaction with own economic conditions, work contract, job, pay, and career. Some evidence indicates that despite little … differences between urban and rural areas with life satisfaction, rural areas exhibit a stronger lack of adaptation for subjective …

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Teen social interactions and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic

Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2023

Adolescence is an important developmental period when teens begin spending less time with their parents and more time with friends and others outside their households as they transition into adulthood. Using the 2017-2021 American Time Use Surveys and the 2012, 2013, and 2021 Well-being Modules,...

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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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Economic recession, parental unemployment and adolescents' health-related quality of life and mental health outcomes in Greece

Drydakis, Nick - 2022

This study examines whether an association exists between parental unemployment and health-related quality of life and mental health for adolescents aged 15-18 in Athens, Greece. The gathered dataset covers the same upper high schools in two periods, 2011-2013 and 2017-2019. The study finds that...

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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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