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Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data

Dolan, Paul - 2019

Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi-experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...

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Sexual Violence, Title IX and Women's College Enrollment

Marcotte, Dave E. - 2016

Sexual violence has long been a problem on college campuses, yet federal policies to protect students have largely been ineffectual. Spurred by student grievances, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights recently began investigating how sexual assault cases were handled at a...

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What Can Life Satisfaction Data Tell Us About Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities? A Structural Equation Model for Australia and the United Kingdom

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2014

to estimate a simultaneous equations model of life satisfaction. The model allows for self-reported sexual identity to … influence a measure of life satisfaction both directly and indirectly through seven different channels: (i) income; (ii …

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Occupational Status and Life Satisfaction in the UK : The Miserable Middle?

Georgellis, Yannis; Clark, Andrew E.; Apergis, Emmanuel; … - 2022

We use British panel data to explore the link between occupational status and life satisfaction. We find puzzling … satisfaction scores than that of employees in either low- or high-status occupations. This puzzle disappears in panel data: the … satisfaction of any man rises as he moves up the status ladder. The culprit seems to be immobility: the miserable middle is caused …

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Earmarked Paternity Leave and Well-Being

Korsgren, Pontus; Lent, Max - 2022

takes a first step in that direction by studying the impact of earmarked paternity leave quota on life satisfaction, job … satisfaction, and work-life balance using several policy changes in Europe over the period 1993-2007. We find that earmarked … paternity leave increases life satisfaction by 0.18 on a 10 point scale which is equivalent to a 10.8 percentage point increase …

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Subjective Well-Being in China, 2005-2010 : The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location

Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2016

We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being...

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Equality of Opportunity for Well-Being

Mahler, Daniel Gerszon - 2017

A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well- being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...

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The Effect of Job Displacement on Subjective Well-Being

Song, Younghwan - 2017

Using matched data drawn from the 2010 and 2012 Displaced Workers Supplements of the Current Population Surveys and the 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Modules, this paper examines the effect of job displacement on various measures of subjective well-being. The results...

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Moving to Despair? Migration and Well-Being in Pakistan

Chen, Joyce J. - 2017

Internal migration has the potential to substantially increase income, especially for the poor in developing countries, and yet migration rates remain low. We explore the role of psychic costs by evaluating the impacts of internal migration on a suite of well-being indicators using a unique,...

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Bentham or Aristotle in the Development Process? An Empirical Investigation of Capabilities and Subjective Well-Being

Graham, Carol - 2014

Life evaluations and emotional states are distinct subjective well-being (SWB) components. We explore the relationship between opportunities and SWB dimensions, distinguishing between actual capabilities and means (education, employment, and income) and perceived opportunities (autonomy and...

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