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Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

abstract concepts such as happiness and life satisfaction, while undervaluing concrete aspects such as family well …

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Harmonizing the Yin and Yang : Gender Disparities in Subjective Well-Being after Retirement in China

Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Chou, Shin-yi; Yu, Han - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

threshold. Notably, retirement manifests significant gender heterogeneity in its influence on life satisfaction, leading to an …

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

Wolfers, Justin - 2003

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

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Do Mood Swings Drive Business Cycles and is it Rational?

Beaudry, Paul - 2011

This paper provides new evidence in support of the idea that bouts of optimism and pessimism drive much of US business cycles. In particular, we begin by using sign-restriction based identification schemes to isolate innovations in optimism or pessimism and we document the extent to which such...

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Recessions, Reeling Markets, and Retiree Well-Being

Coile, Courtney C. - 2010

This paper examines the impact of late-career investment returns and job loss on subsequent retiree well-being. Specifically, we explore whether there is a link between the income of retirees aged 70 to 79 and the stock market and labor market conditions that existed around the time of their...

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The Well-being of the Overemployed and the Underemployed and the Rise in Depression in the UK

Bell, David N.F. - 2018

of five main measures of well-being: happiness; life satisfaction; whether life is worthwhile; anxiety and depression …

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Wellbeing, Expectations and Unemployment in Europe

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

micro data from 1973-2023 on movements in life satisfaction along with data from 1995-2022 on five expectations variables on … variables while it is uncorrelated with life satisfaction. The unemployment rate and the CPI reduce both. We analyze data for 29 …

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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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Declining Life Satisfaction and Happiness Among Young Adults in Six English-speaking Countries

Twenge, Jean M.; Blanchflower, David G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We report eleven studies that show declines in life satisfaction and happiness among young adults in the last decade or … National Election Survey. In the U. S. life satisfaction rises with age. This is broadly confirmed in several other datasets … Global Minds. There is broad evidence across all of these English-speaking countries that happiness and life satisfaction …

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