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paper suggests ways to calculate the level of compensatory damages for the pain and suffering from disablement. Courts all …
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British population view themselves as overweight, and that happiness and mental health are worse among fatter people in both …
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This empirical research note uses a large-scale household panel survey for Germany to assess the consumption values of partners and friends. For this purpose, reported individual life satisfaction (as proxy for utility) is regressed on being in a partnership, on the number of friends, on the net...
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This paper is a continuation of results in Blanchflower and Oswald (2008). It provides new evidence that well-being follows a curve through life. We use data on half a million randomly sampled individuals across eight major European nations. Importantly, we show that in this set of countries...
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control for cohort effects. Holding other factors constant, we show that a typical individual’s happiness reaches its minimum …
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We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this …
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This study investigates the effects of social comparison accompanying a substantial reform of the Dutch pension system on the job satisfaction of workers who are close to retirement. The reform implies that public sector workers born on January 1, 1950, or later face a considerable reduction in...
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This study investigates the effects of social comparisons accompanying a substantial reform of the Dutch pension system on the job satisfaction of workers who are close to retirement. The reform implies that public sector workers born on January 1, 1950, or later face a substantial reduction in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764602
In the United States happiness, on average, varies positively with socio-economic status; is fairly constant over time … happiness can be predicted rather closely from the mean satisfaction people report with each of four domains - finances, family … happiness, they come together in a way that explains quite well the overall patterns of happiness. The importance of any given …
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happiness - bringing under a single theoretical umbrella diverse mechanisms together with their effects across disparate domains … distinctive identity and a distinctive magnitude of happiness. Thus, the theory enables systematic and parsimonious analysis of …
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