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Happiness and the Human Development Index : The Paradox of Australia

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021

have some of the lowest levels of job satisfaction in the world. Moreover, among the sub-sample of English-speaking nations …

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Creative Destruction and Subjective Wellbeing

Aghion, Philippe - 2015

In this paper we analyze the relationship between turnover-driven growth and subjective wellbeing, using cross-sectional MSA level US data. We find that the effect of creative destruction on wellbeing is (i) unambiguously positive if we control for MSA-level unemployment, less so if we do not;...

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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2022

determinants of satisfaction are presented and examined using both cross-section data on these cohorts and panel data from the NLSY …The distribution of job satisfaction widened across cohorts of young men in the United States between 1978 and 1988 …, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings …

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Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress

Stevenson, Betsey - 2013

Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...

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Money, Sex, and Happiness : An Empirical Study

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021

This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a random sample of 16,000 adult Americans. The paper finds that sexual activity enters strongly positively in happiness equations. Greater income does not buy more sex, nor more sexual...

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Is Business Cycle Volatility Costly? Evidence from Surveys of Subjective Wellbeing

Wolfers, Justin - 2022

-reported happiness and life satisfaction. I find robust evidence that high inflation and, to a greater extent, unemployment lower …

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International Evidence on Well-Being

Blanchflower, David G. - 2010

unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these … power of the U-index. Happiness and life satisfaction data seem able to forecast migration flows. Fourth, happy people are …

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Selection into Identification in Fixed Effects Models, with Application to Head Start

Miller, Douglas L. - 2019

Many papers use fixed effects (FE) to identify causal impacts of an intervention. In this paper we show that when the treatment status only varies within some groups, this design can induce non-random selection of groups into the identifying sample, which we term selection into identification...

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Subjective Outcomes in Economics

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021

This study examines the various uses of subjective outcomes as a focus of interest for economists. It outlines the possible channels by which economists can usefully add to what are already massive literatures on such outcomes in the other social sciences. Generally we contribute little if we...

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Does Labor Legislation Benefit Workers? Well-Being after an Hours Reduction

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2014

were achieved? We examine changes in life satisfaction of Japanese and Koreans over a period when hours of work were cut …. Using repeated cross sections we show that life satisfaction in both countries may have increased relatively among those …

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