Well-Being across America

Oswald, Andrew J.; Wu, Stephen

doi:10.1162/rest_a_00133

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“…In Section I of this paper, we follow the work of Oswald and Wu (2011) and use BRFSS to measure subjective well-being across the United States. We extend their work by calculating SWB at finer geographic levels, adjusting for observable individual differences, and correcting for sampling error.…”

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Unhappy Cities

Glaeser¹,

Gottlieb²,

Ziv³

2014

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Unhappy Cities

Glaeser¹,

Gottlieb²,

Ziv³

2014

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“…First, it adds to the literature on well-being. Events studied in this field include economic growth (Oswald, 1997;Oswald and Wu, 2011;Deaton, 2012), unemployment (Winkelmann and Winkelmann, 1998;Kassenboehmer and Haisken-DeNew, 2009;Knabe et al, 2010;Luechinger et al, 2010;Marcus, 2013), (relative) income (Frijters et al, 2004;Senik, 2009;Clark et al, 2009;Clark and Senik, 2010), or pollution (Luechinger, 2009). …”

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How Natural Disasters Can Affect Environmental Concerns, Risk Aversion, and Even Politics: Evidence from Fukushima and Three European Countries

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“…This is not unreasonable because of the fact that mental health is measured via questions which refer to the last 4 weeks before the interview. In studies on determinants of mental well-being it has been shown that the time interval to which the questions on mental well-being refer does not signicantly matter (e.g., Oswald and Powdthavee, 2007;Oswald and Wu, 2011). Hence, although the questions on mental health in the MxFLS refer to the last 4 weeks before interview, they can reasonably be matched to data on homicides that cover a longer time span.…”

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