Unemployment has been robustly shown to strongly decrease subjective wellbeing. Using
panel quantile regression techniques, we analyse to what extent the negative impact of …

The financial crisis of 2007/08 precipitated a severe global economic downturn, typically
referred to as the Great Recession. However, in the United Kingdom this period has been …

This study investigates how two sources of individual heterogeneity—personality and
gender—impact the well‐being effects of retirement. Using data on older men and women …

Risk attitude is a vital component of public mental health. Thus, the public should be guided
to fully comprehend risks to improve public mental health. Using panel data from China …

Subjective well-being in economics (or, more colloquially put, the economics of happiness)
is an approach to assessing welfare that combines the techniques typically used by …

It is now an accepted stylised fact that increase in happiness level in any country is not
commensurate with growth in income, a puzzle known as Easterlin Paradox. This paper …

Income adaptation and social comparison are the standard explanations for the lack of a
direct long-run relationship between income and happiness. Individuals evaluate life …

This study explains the observed gender gap in subjective well-being (SWB) in China using
heterogeneous marginal utility derived from leisure hours. We find that women in China …

In this paper we explore how personality and gender influence how individuals cope with
illness. Unsurprisingly, illness has a negative effect on an individual's health satisfaction, but …

The proposition that living in the largest urban agglomerations of an advanced economy
reduces the average wellbeing of residents is known as the urban wellbeing paradox …