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Income effects on children's life satisfaction : longitudinal evidence for England
Knies, Gundi - 2017
Using longitudinal data for children aged 10-15 years living in England in 2009-2014 we test the hypothesis that income matters for children’s life satisfaction. The results suggest that children are more satisfied with life the more income their family has. Income effects are larger the less...
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Two-way causation in life satisfaction research : structural equation models with Granger-causation
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - 2014
). These variables include one's state of health, social support and participation, exercise, job satisfaction and satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440542
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Revisiting cheerful Jane and miserable John : the impact of income, good health, social contacts and education declines with increasing subjective well-being
Binder, Martin - 2015
(health, social life, income, education) over the quantiles of the subjective well-being distribution, with attenuated effect …
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The Long-Run Labor-Market Consequences of Civil War : Evidence from the Shining Path in Peru
Galdo, José - 2010
. Evidence on intervening pathways suggests that health rather than schooling is the most important channel in connecting early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141420
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The long-run labor-market consequences of civil war : evidence from the Shining Path in Peru
Galdo, Jose - 2010
. Evidence on intervening pathways suggests that health rather than schooling is the most important channel in connecting early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003984792
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"More children, more happiness?" : new evidence from elderly parents in China
Gao, Yanyan; Qu, Zhaopeng - 2019 - This version: July 2019
In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of 'more children, more happiness' by exploiting … representative survey data from the 2015 China Health and Retirement Longitude Survey, the results from both the ordinary least …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152172
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The structure of happiness : a vector autoregressive approach
Binder, Martin; Ward, Felix - 2011
autoregressions are a suitable tool to analyze the underlying structure of changes in happiness and its coevolution with changes in … income, health, worries, marital status and employment status. With this technique we can simultaneously analyze the impact … changes in the named life domains are followed by decreases in subjective well-being (except for health, which is followed by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152984
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Causal linkages between work and life satisfaction and their determinants in a structural VAR approach
Coad, Alexander; Binder, Martin - 2014
Work and life satisfaction depends on a number of pecuniary and nonpecuniary factors at the workplace and determines these in turn. We analyze these causal linkages using a structural vector autoregression approach for a sample of the German working populace collected from 1984 to 2008, finding...
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Towards a theory of life satisfaction accounting for stability, change and volatility in 25-year life trajectories in Germany
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - 2016
An adequate theory of Life Satisfaction (LS) needs to take account of both factors that tend to stabilise LS and those that change it. The most widely accepted theory in psychology - setpoint theory - focussed solely on stability. That theory is now regarded as inadequate since several national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502854
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Measuring progress
O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
Societal progress is characterized primarily as an improvement in the distribution of wellbeing; however, a small set of additional variables are also necessary. Social indicators based on objective measures are inherently limited by the subjective assessments necessary of "experts" to select...
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