[태그:] Well‐Being

Summary. Divorce is a leap in the dark. The paper investigates whether people who split up actually become happier. Using the British Household Panel Survey, we can observe an individual's level of psychological well‐being in the years before and after divorce. Our results show that divorcing couples reap psychological gains from the dissolution of their marriages. Men and women benefit equally. The paper also studies ...

This article summarises recent empirical research on the determinants of subjective well‐being. Results from national and international samples suggest that measures of social capital, including especially the corollary measures of specific and general trust, have substantial effects on well‐being beyond those flowing through economic channels. Cross‐national samples (supported by parallel analysis of suicide data) show large well‐being effects from the quality of government. Finally, using ...

Non‐profit firms are often seen as workplaces where people not only work for money, but also find substantial satisfaction in the kind of work they do. Studies looking at compensating wage differentials, however, have only found limited support for this notion. In this paper, a novel approach is undertaken to compare the utilities of non‐profit and for‐profit employees, by using measures of job satisfaction. The ...