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Some Socio-Economic Effects of Labour Migration on the Sending Country. Evidence from Romania

Roman, Monica; Voicu, Cristina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

and social life. After Romania joined the EU, the travel of Romanians inside the EU is totally free and they fructified …

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Does joining the EU make you happy? : evidence from Bulgaria and Romania

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016

We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the … context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern … life satisfaction in Bulgaria and had a positive but statistically insignificant effect in Romania. One explanation is that …

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New ways to measure well-being? A first joint analysis of subjective and objective measures

Andrén, Daniela; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; … - 2019

Our study is, to our knowledge, the first joint analysis of subjective and objective measures of well-being. Using a rich longitudinal data from the mothers pregnancy until adulthood for a birth cohort of children who attended school in Örebro during the 1960s, we analyse in a first step how...

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Group-Specific Redistribution, Inequality, and Subjective Well-Being in China

Deng, Peihua; Schöb, Ronnie - 2022

Using survey data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010 to 2018, this paper analyzes the relationship between income inequality, group-specific income redistribution, and subjective well-being among China's urban, rural, and migrant populations. Using narrowly defined reference...

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Traffic accident experience and subjective well-being

Andrén, Daniela; Tapper, Erik Johansson - 2022

In this paper we aim to use a posteriori approach to estimate the monetary compensation that would keep the individual's subjective well-being unchanged after experiencing traffic accidents. The coefficients of the life satisfaction equation, estimated with Swedish data collected in May 2020,...

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A Measure of Well-Being Efficiency Based on the World Happiness Report

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective well-being (Cantril ladder). We use the six inputs (real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity)...

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Child Gender and Subjective Well-being of Older Parents in China

Lei, Lei; Wu, Fengyu; Xia, Yiming - 2023

In many societies, parents prefer sons over daughters, but the well-being effects of child gender, especially in later life, are less studied. Using the latest two waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), this paper evaluates the impacts of having daughters on older...

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Is inequality in subjective well-being meritocratic? Danish evidence from linked survey and administrative data

Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; Olufsen, Isabel Skak - 2022

This paper decomposes inequality in subjective well-being into inequality due to socioeconomic background (SEB) and meritocratic inequality due to differences in individual merits such as school performance. We measure the meritocratic share of well-being, defined as the share of explained...

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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,...

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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 with declining generosity. This is the principal...

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