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residential mobility relate moving behaviour to the housing and neighbourhood satisfaction and pre-move thoughts of individuals …
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We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to …
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Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses … the level of satisfaction with political and economic institutions and with the education and health systems, whereas the …
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Recently, economists and behavioral scientists have studied the pattern of human well-being over the lifespan. In dozens of countries, and for a large range of well-being measures, including happiness and mental health, well-being is high in youth, falls to a nadir in midlife, and rises again in...
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ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling …
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There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …
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Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...
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effect of unemployment on life satisfaction. …
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about 0.10 standard deviations of additional satisfaction/happiness among men, 0.12 among women. Accounting for a wide …We measure the impact of individuals' looks on their life satisfaction or happiness. Using five data sets from the U … and marriage markets, the impact among men is more than halved, among women slightly less than halved. The majority of the …
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We provide an explanation for the common finding that the effect of retirement on life satisfaction is negligible. For … this we use subjective well-being measures for life and domains of life satisfaction that are available in the German Socio …-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and show that the effect of voluntary retirement on satisfaction with current household income is negative …
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