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National Happiness and Genetic Distance: A Cautious Exploration

Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for … Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking - one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …

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National Happiness and Genetic Distance: A Cautious Exploration

Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for … Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking – one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884101

Subjective well-being and relative poverty in rural Bangladesh

Asadullah, Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2012

-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We … do so by combining household data with population census and village survey records. Our results show that conditional on … own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction levels when they experience an increase in their income over …

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

Asadullah, Niaz; Xiao, Saizi; Yeoh, Emile Kok-Kheng - 2016

-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … conditional on having the same income, there is no rural-urban happiness gap. Our results suggest that while further decline in …

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What Matters for Life Satisfaction among the Oldest-Old? Evidence from China

Ng, Sor Tho; Tey, Nai Peng; Asadullah, Niaz - 2017

This study investigates the determinants of life satisfaction among the oldest-old (i.e. individuals aged 80 or over … and community factors on life satisfaction and depression among the oldest-old in China. Our analysis confirms the … significance of many factors affecting life satisfaction among the oldest-old in China. Factors that are correlated with life …

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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Poverty in Rural Bangladesh

Asadullah, Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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

Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 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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Robots, Meaning, and Self-Determination

Nikolova, Milena; Cnossen, Femke; Nikolaev, Boris - 2023

This paper is the first to examine the impact of robotization on work meaningfulness and autonomy, competence, and relatedness, which are essential to motivation and well-being at work. Drawing on surveys from workers and industry-specific robotization data across 14 industries in 20 European...

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Just Another Cog in the Machine? A Worker-Level View of Robotization and Tasks

Nikolova, Milena; Lepinteur, Anthony; Cnossen, Femke - 2023

Using survey data from 20 European countries, we construct novel worker-level indices of routine, abstract, social, and physical tasks, which we combine with industry-level robotization exposure. Our conceptual framework builds on the insight that robotization simultaneously replaces, creates,...

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Identifying Population Groups at High Risk of Social Exclusion: Evidence from the ECHP

Tsakloglou, Panos; Papadopoulos, Fotis - 2001

cumulative disadvantage? and attempts to identify population members at high risk of social exclusion in EU countries using the … higher risk of social exclusion than the rest of the population. To a large extent, this risk is accounted by the higher than …

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