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Do fathers have son preference in the United States? : evidence from paternal subjective well-being
Song, Younghwan; Gao, Jia - 2022
Using data drawn from 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Modules, this paper examines the existence of son preference among fathers in the U.S. by estimating the effect of child gender on the fathers' subjective well-being. A wide range of subjective well-being measures,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471983
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Lack of Integrity? Rebutting the Myth that U.S. Commercial Sports Leagues Have an Intellectual Property Right to Sports Gambling Proceeds
Edelman, Marc - 2018
Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (“PASPA”) violated the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and thus the U ….S. government may not use PASPA to prevent states from legalizing commercial sports gambling. In anticipation of this ruling, four U ….S. states have already passed new laws to legalize and regulate sports gambling. Meanwhile, fifteen states currently have sports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915927
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Gender discrimination and sexual harassment : insights through a comparison of the United States and Germany
Droege, Lukas - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009745583
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Objective Confirmation of Subjective Measures of Human Well-Being : Evidence from the USA
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2010
-2008 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System random sample of 1.3 million United States citizens. Life-satisfaction in each U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148337
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Objective confirmation of subjective measures of human well-being : evidence from the USA
Oswald, Andrew J.; Wu, Stephen - 2010
-2008 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System random sample of 1.3 million United States citizens. Life-satisfaction in each U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003934218
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Employment, late-life work, retirement, and well-being in Europe and the United States
Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 5, pp. 1-30
relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on the one hand and employment status and retirement, on the other, using … happier, experience less stress and anger, and have higher job satisfaction than other employees. Using statistical matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251177
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Racial diversity, immigrants and the well-being of residents : evidence from U.S. counties
Kuroki, Masanori - 2017
associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the … (approximately one-half of a standard deviation) is associated with 0.006 and 0.007 points reduction in life satisfaction on a four … (approximately two standard deviations) is associated with 0.009 and 0.021 points reduction in life satisfaction for White men and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114070
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Relative Status and Well-Being : Evidence from U.S. Suicide Deaths
Daly, Mary C. - 2007
This paper empirically assesses the theory of interpersonal income comparison using individual level data on suicide deaths in the United States. We model suicide as a choice variable, conditional on exogenous risk factors, reflecting an individual's assessment of current and expected future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012728721
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The Declining Mental Health Of The Young And The Global Disappearance Of The Hump Shape In Age In Unhappiness
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Xu, Xiaowei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Across many studies subjective well-being follows a U-shape in age, declining until people reach middle-age, only to rebound subsequently. Ill-being follows a mirror-imaged hump-shape. But this empirical regularity has been replaced by a monotonic decrease in illbeing by age. The reason for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528377
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Do Fathers Have Son Preference in the United States? Evidence from Paternal Subjective Well-Being
Song, Younghwan; Gao, Jia - 2023
Using data drawn from 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Modules, this paper examines the existence of son preference among fathers in the U.S. by estimating the effect of child gender on the fathers' subjective well-being. A wide range of subjective well-being measures,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264205