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Is Well-being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?

Blanchflower, David G. - 2007

Europe, newer birth-cohorts are happier …

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The Economics of Walking About and Predicting Unemployment

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Recession and the economic slowdown in Europe just prior to the COVID19 pandemic …

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The Female Happiness Paradox

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect equations, irrespective of the measure used - anxiety, depression, fearfulness, sadness, loneliness, anger - and they have more days with bad mental health and more restless...

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Underemployment in the US and Europe

Bell, David N.F. - 2018

Large numbers of part-time workers around the world, both those who choose to be part-time and those who are there involuntarily and would prefer a full-time job report they want more hours. Full-timers who say they want to change their hours mostly say they want to reduce them. When recession...

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Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility

Blanchflower, David G. - 2008

If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...

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Hypertension and Happiness across Nations

Blanchflower, David G. - 2007

A modern statistical literature argues that countries such as Denmark are particularly happy while nations like East Germany are not. Are such claims credible? The paper explores this by building on two ideas. The first is that psychological well-being and high blood-pressure are thought by...

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The Rising Well-Being of the Young

Blanchflower, David G. - 1997

Many observers believe that times are growing harder for young people in Western society. This paper looks at the evidence and finds that conventional wisdom appears to be wrong. Using the U.S. General Social Surveys and the Eurobarometer Surveys, the paper studies the reported happiness and...

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The Marshall Plan : History's Most Successful Structural Adjustment Program

De Long, J. Bradford - 1991

The post-World War II reconstruction of Western Europe was one of the greatest economic policy and foreign policy … that transferred some $13 billion to Europe in the years 1948-51. We examine the economic effects of the Marshall Plan, and … role in setting the stage for post-World War II Western Europe's rapid growth. The conditions attached to Marshall Plan aid …

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Relaxing the External Constraint : Europe in the 1930s

Eichengreen, Barry - 1990

This paper documents the effects of exchange rates and the external constraint during the interwar years. In the absence of international policy coordination, exchange rate depreciation is shown to have been a necessary precondition for the adoption of policies promoting recovery from the Great...

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The Mother of All Sudden Stops : Capital Flows and Reversals in Europe, 1919-32

Accominotti, Olivier - 2013

financial centers at the end of the 1920s figured importantly in the decline in foreign lending. We draw parallels with Europe …

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