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Were Covid and the Great Recession Well-Being Reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which has been rising …
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Happiness in Old Age : The Daughter Connection
Sukontamarn, Pataporn; Asadullah, M. Niaz; … - 2023
Family and intergenerational relationships are becoming increasingly important as sources of support and care for the elderly population in the rapidly aging Asian societies. However, this has also raised concern over the reinforcement of cultural preferences for sons as a source of old-age...
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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
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 and levels of life satisfaction for individuals aged between 16 and … approximately 65. Thereafter, life satisfaction declines rapidly and the lowest absolute levels of life satisfaction are recorded …
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Life Satisfaction
Kapteyn, Arie - 2009
We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both … self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global life satisfaction of happiness is well … contacts and family have the highest impact on global life satisfaction, followed by job and daily activities and health …
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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
significantly improved the overall life satisfaction of low-income non-elderly adults. Various sensitivity checks and falsification …
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