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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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with twelve concrete health impairments. Specifically, we analyze whether subjective well-being predicts longer survival in … decrease survival in our sample, even controlling for the severity of health problems. But our results cast doubt on strong … significant interactions between substantive health impairments and life satisfaction. Higher subjective well-being may keep you …
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(health, social life, income, education) over the quantiles of the subjective well-being distribution, with attenuated effect …
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health predicts higher happiness by 1.72 point or 0.82 of a standard deviation, more than four times the happiness difference …Health assessments correlate with health outcomes and subjective well-being. Immigrants offer an opportunity to study … persistent social influences on health where the social conditions are not endogenous to individual outcomes. This approach …
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Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. In this chapter, we argue that focusing on a phase of life during which this positive picture does not necessarily prevail promises to help us better understand between-person disparities in the...
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This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their children's life satisfaction. When controlling...
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positive development of personality, health factors, schooling or labor market outcomes. Our results suggest that the increase … backgrounds and boys. For individuals from high socioeconomic backgrounds, it might be driven by a better health. …
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positive development of personality, health factors, schooling or labor market outcomes. Our results suggest that the increase … backgrounds and boys. For individuals from high socioeconomic backgrounds, it might be driven by a better health. …
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Very little is understood about how immigrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being of natives. We use the …
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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 …
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