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Were Covid and the Great Recession Well-Being Reducing?

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023

the IPSOS Happiness Survey 2018-2023 we show individuals' reports of subjective wellbeing in Europe did decline in the … the annual data from the United Nation's Humasn Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World Happiness Report from …

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Happiness in Old Age : The Daughter Connection

Sukontamarn, Pataporn; Asadullah, M. Niaz; … - 2023

cultural preferences for sons as a source of old-age security. This paper, therefore, revisits the determinants of happiness in …-age happiness and the presence of a coresiding child. Compared with living alone, living with at least one child is found to be … positively associated with older persons' happiness. However, this result is specific to daughters. Moreover, compared with older …

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The Gendered Crisis : Livelihoods and Mental Well-Being in India During Covid-19

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari - 2023

This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points during pandemic relative to pre-pandemic employment, while their...

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Ageing, Health and Life Satisfaction of the Oldest Old : An Analysis for Germany

Gwozdz, Wencke - 2009

This analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to assess the effect of ageing and health on the life satisfaction of the oldest old (defined as 75 and older). We observe a U-shaped relationship between age...

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Life Satisfaction

Kapteyn, Arie - 2009

self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global life satisfaction of happiness is well …

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Income Volatility, Health and Well-Being

Adeline, Amelie - 2019

While there is mounting evidence that large income shocks, e.g. in the form of a job loss, may impact health and mortality, little evidence exist on the potential relationship between sustained income volatility, keeping average lifetime income constant, and health. This paper exploits rich...

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A Happy Choice : Wellbeing as the Goal of Government

Frijters, Paul - 2019

In this article, we lay out the basic case for wellbeing as the goal of government. We briefly review the history of this idea, which goes back to the ancient Greeks and was the acknowledged ideal of the Enlightenment. We then discuss possible measures on which a wellbeing orientation could be...

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Transition from Plan to Market, Height and Well-Being

Adserà, Alícia - 2019

Using newly available data, we re-evaluate the impact of transition from plan to market in former communist countries on objective and subjective well-being. We find clear evidence of the high social cost of early transition reforms: cohorts born around the start of transition are shorter than...

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Do Perceptions of Economic Well-Being Predict the Onset of War and Peace?

Swee, Eik - 2019

While economic deprivation is an important determinant of civil conflict, it cannot completely explain the incentives for warfare. In irregular wars, for example, both incumbents and insurgents may employ various tactics to win the hearts and minds of civilians in order to muster territorial...

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The Effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Subjective Well-Being

Kim, Seonghoon - 2019

This study analyzes the effects of the 2014 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion on the subjective well-being of individuals in the United States. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that the expansion has significantly improved the overall life satisfaction of...

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