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on Economics of Happiness |
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Issue of 2024‒10‒28
three papers chosen by Viviana Di Giovinazzo, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca |
| By: | Perona, Mathieu |
| Abstract: | Les principaux indicateurs de bien-être progressent en septembre, tant par rapport à juin que par rapport à septembre 2023. La satisfaction générale dans la vie, le sentiment de sens ou encore la satisfaction par rapport au travail atteignent certains de leurs plus hauts niveaux depuis 2016, tandis que le sentiment d’avoir été heureux ou l’appréciation des perspectives de la prochaine génération se redressent. Dans un climat d’incertitude politique et de stagnation de la situation financière des ménages, cette embellie découle probablement du sentiment d’enthousiasme créé par les Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de Paris 2024. |
| Keywords: | France, Well-Being, Conjoncture, Bien-être |
| Date: | 2024–09 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cpm:notobe:2412 |
| By: | Mohanty, Aatishya (University of Aberdeen); Powdthavee, Nattavudh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore & IZA Institute, Bonn); Tang, CK (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Oswald, Adrew J. (University of Warwick, IZA Institute, Bonn & CAGE Research Centre) |
| Abstract: | This paper studies natural disasters and the psychological costs of climate change. It presents what we believe to be the first evidence that higher temperature variability and not a higher level of temperature is what predicts natural disasters. This conclusion holds whether or not we control for the (incorrectly signed) impact of temperature. The analysis draws upon longdifferences regression equations using GDIS data from 1960-2018 for 176 countries and the contiguous states of the USA. Results are checked on FEMA data. Wellbeing impact losses are calculated. To our knowledge, the paper’s results are unknown to natural and social scientists. |
| Keywords: | Global warming ; temperature standard deviation ; human wellbeing ; happiness ; disasters ; BRFSS ; WVS JEL Codes: Q54 ; I31 |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wrk:warwec:1519 |
| By: | Ichimura , Hidehiko (University of Arizona and University of Tokyo); Lei , Xiaoyan (Peking University.); Lee , Chulhee (Seoul National University); Lee , Jinkook (University of Southern California); Park , Albert (Asian Development Bank); Sawada , Yasuyuki (University of Tokyo) |
| Abstract: | East Asia is undergoing a rapid demographic transition and “super” aging. As a result of steadily decreasing fertility and increasing life expectancy, older people’s proportion of the population and the old-age dependency ratio is rising across all countries in East Asia, particularly in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Japan, and the Republic of Korea (ROK). In this paper, we empirically investigate the well-being of older people in these three countries, using comparable microlevel data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), the Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement (JSTAR), and the Korean Longitudinal Study on Aging (KLoSA). Specifically, we examine the depressive symptom scale as a measure of well-being and estimate the impact of four broad categories—demographic, economic, family-social, and health. The decomposition and simulation analysis reveals that although much of the difference in mean depression rates among countries can be explained by differences in the characteristics of older people in the three countries, there remain significant differences across countries that cannot be explained. In particular, even after accounting for a multitude of factors, older people in the ROK are more likely to be depressed than in the PRC or Japan. |
| Keywords: | aging; well-being; depression; suicide; panel data |
| JEL: | D10 I30 J14 |
| Date: | 2024–10–15 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ris:adbewp:0745 |