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Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-being Reducing?

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Happiness Report from the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last …' expectations of the economy and the labor market. Neither the UN's Human Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World …, although it fell slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which …

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The Gender Well-being Gap

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

endogenous variables. However, when one examines the three 'global' wellbeing metrics - happiness, life satisfaction and Cantril …-country surveys from 167 countries across the world, two US surveys covering multiple years and a survey for Canada. We find women …

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The Declining Mental Health Of The Young And The Global Disappearance Of The Hump Shape In Age In Unhappiness

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Xu, Xiaowei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Across many studies subjective well-being follows a U-shape in age, declining until people reach middle-age, only to rebound subsequently. Ill-being follows a mirror-imaged hump-shape. But this empirical regularity has been replaced by a monotonic decrease in illbeing by age. The reason for the...

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Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development : Experimental Evidence from Brazil

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Barros, Ricardo Paes de; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their caregivers over the course of seven years after enrollment into daycare. At the end of 2007, the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil used a lottery to assign children to limited...

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The Effects of Income on the Economic Wellbeing of Families with Low Incomes : Evidence from the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit

Pilkauskas, Natasha; Michelmore, Katherine; Kovski, Nicole - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine the effects of an unconditional cash transfer on the economic wellbeing (material hardship, ability to meet needs, money on hand, use of friends and family for assistance, and employment) of families and children with very low incomes. We use a parameterized difference-in-differences...

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Money or Time? Heterogeneous Effects of Unconditional Cash on Parental Investments

Shah, Hema; Gennetian, Lisa A.; Magnuson, Katherine A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Household time and money allocations in response to income support programs vary across diverse family circumstances and preferences, yet such heterogeneous responses are not well understood. Using data from a large-scale, multisite, U.S.-based randomized controlled study, we examine...

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From Happiness Data to Economic Conclusions

Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Happiness data--survey respondents' self-reported well-being (SWB)--have become increasingly common in economics …

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Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being

Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...

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Measuring Self-Reported Well-Being

Heffetz, Ori; Caspi, Yehonatan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

What should researchers consider when designing experiments that (also) collect self-reported well-being (SWB) data? Focusing on experiments in economics, we examine the motivation behind SWB-data collection, survey leading past examples, and highlight potential pitfalls and their proposed...

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The Misery of Diversity

Cesur, Resul; Yıldırım, Sadullah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Evolutionary accounts assert that while diversity may lower subjective well-being (SWB) by creating an evolutionary mismatch between evolved psychological tendencies and the current social environment, human societies can adapt to diversity via intergroup contact under appropriate conditions....

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