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The Economics of Happiness

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 The Relevance of Richard A. Easterlin’s Groundbreaking Work. A Historical Perspective
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    Chapter 2 Different Versions of the Easterlin Paradox: New Evidence for European Countries
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    Chapter 3 Lottery Wins and Satisfaction: Overturning Brickman in Modern Longitudinal Data on Germany
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    Chapter 4 Relative Income, Subjective Wellbeing and the Easterlin Paradox: Intra- and Inter-national Comparisons
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    Chapter 5 Relative Income and Happiness in Latin America: Implications for Inequality Debates
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    Chapter 6 Does Happiness Improve Welfare Economics a Lot?
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    Chapter 7 Why the Easterlin Paradox? The Scitovsky Hypothesis
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    Chapter 8 Homo Economicus and Happiness: Towards More Sustainable Development
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    Chapter 9 Distaste for Inequality? The Role of Risk Aversion
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    Chapter 10 Advertising as a Major Source of Human Dissatisfaction: Cross-National Evidence on One Million Europeans
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    Chapter 11 What Makes for a Good Job? Evidence Using Subjective Wellbeing Data
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    Chapter 12 Unhappiness as an Engine of Economic Growth
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    Chapter 13 Keynes’ Grandchildren and Easterlin’s Paradox: What Is Keeping Us from Reducing Our Working Hours?
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    Chapter 14 Using Well-Being Metrics to Assess Social Well-Being and Ill-Being: Lessons from Rising Mortality Rates in the United States
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    Chapter 15 When Does Economic Growth Improve Well-Being?
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    Chapter 16 The Subjective Well-Being Political Paradox: Evidence from Latin America
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    Chapter 17 Born to Be Mild? Cohort Effects Don’t (Fully) Explain Why Well-Being Is U-Shaped in Age
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    Chapter 18 Happiness Amongst Teens in Australia
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    Chapter 19 Do Humans Suffer a Psychological Low in Midlife? Two Approaches (With and Without Controls) in Seven Data Sets
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    Chapter 20 Happiness at Different Ages: The Social Context Matters
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Chapter title
Do Humans Suffer a Psychological Low in Midlife? Two Approaches (With and Without Controls) in Seven Data Sets
Chapter number 19
Book title
The Economics of Happiness
Published by
Springer, Cham, January 2019
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-15835-4_19
Book ISBNs
978-3-03-015834-7, 978-3-03-015835-4
Authors

David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald, Blanchflower, David G., Oswald, Andrew J.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 12 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 18%
Student > Bachelor 8 14%
Professor 3 5%
Other 3 5%
Other 10 18%
Unknown 10 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 15 27%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 10 18%
Social Sciences 6 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 15 27%