The Origins of Happiness

Chapter 9 linked with increased life- satisfaction over the eight- year period. When loneliness is removed from the model, the a ...

Happiness at Older Ages known from analyses of life- satisfaction at earlier stages of life.^10 Economic circumstances play a pa ...

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PART TWO What Makes a Successful Child? ...

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10 Family Income One half of the world knows not how the other half lives. — Joseph Hall, Holy Observations (1607) Finally we re ...

Chapter 10 We have a chapter on each of these five types of expe- rience. The question is how they affect the three main di- men ...

Family Income in the family.^2 The prime issue now, as in the next five chap- ters, is how this affects children, all else held ...

Chapter 10 child would be only 0.012 of one standard deviation hap- pier at each age. Other studies have come to similar conclus ...

Family Income The Effect of Family Income on Intellectual Performance By contrast, if we turn to intellectual performance there ...

Chapter 10 This is quite a high cost. So the policy maker might ask a different question: Is there any other measure by which I ...

Family Income Wei- Jun Jean Yeung and colleagues analyze the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and find a β- coefficient of 0.15 fo ...

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11 Working Parents My husband and I have decided to start a family while my parents are still young enough to look after them. — ...

Chapter 11 Mother’s Work and the Emotional Health of Her Child Table 11.1 answers the question, holding income constant. As it s ...

Working Parents Cohort Study). These children likewise showed no loss of mental health if their mothers went quickly back to wor ...

Chapter 11 those whose mothers worked throughout their childhood behaved worse. This effect is significant only for girls— with ...

Working Parents that year, or treats other children well that year. But the out- come of academic education is the final state. ...

Chapter 11 effect on both men and women. But how does it affect their children? ALSPAC provides clear unemployment data only on ...

Working Parents Conclusion Jawaharlal Nehru wrote “Work is worship.” This might be a bit over the top, but work is important for ...