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The socio political demography of happiness

Peltzman, Sam - 2023

Since 1972 the General Social Survey (GSS) has asked a representative sample of US adults "… [are] you…very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy?" Overall, the population is reasonably happy even after a mild recent decline. I focus on differences along standard socio demographic...

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Explaining happiness trends in Europe

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to … the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …

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The anatomy of marital happiness

Peltzman, Sam - 2025

answers. Here I use a net "happiness" measure, which is percentage Yes less percentage No with Maybe treated as zero. Average … happiness is around +20 on this scale for all respondents from 1972 to the last pre-pandemic survey (2018). However, there is a …

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Gender differences in life satisfaction and social participation

Humpert, Stephan - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 6 (2013) 3, pp. 123-142

The paper deals with the effects of social participation activities on life satisfaction. Using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) for 2010, marginal effects of binary probit estimations on life satisfaction are presented. Strong gender differences are observable. While sport, welfare or...

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Self-reported satisfaction and the economic crisis of 2007 - 10 : or how people in the UK and Germany perceive a severe cyclical downturn

Mertens, Antje; Beblo, Miriam - 2013

Self-reported satisfaction measures respond to a great variety of socio-demographic characteristics as well as the job and living environment. In this paper we ask whether the recent financial market crisis has caused a deterioration of satisfaction not only for the unemployed but also for those...

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Building a Better Theory of Well-Being

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021

What do social surveys of life cycle experience tell us about the determinants of subjective well-being? First, that the psychologists' setpoint model is wrong. Life events in the nonpecuniary domain, such as marriage, divorce, and physical disability, have a lasting effect on well-being, and do...

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Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to … the generosity of welfare state programs increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255924

Gender Differences in Life Satisfaction and Social Participation

Humpert, Stephan - 2014

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The Socio Political Demography of Happiness

Peltzman, Sam - 2023

Since 1972 the General Social Survey (GSS) has asked a representative sample of US adults “… [are] you …very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy?” Overall, the population is reasonably happy even after a mild recent decline. I focus on differences along standard socio demographic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014349576

Approval of equal rights and gender : differences in well-being

Lalive, Rafael (contributor); Stutzer, Alois (contributor) - 2007

Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper explores whether norms regarding the appropriate pay for women compared to men may explain these findings. In order to capture the spatial variation in such norms, we take community level information on citizens' approval...

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