George Ward

University of Oxford

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Nattavudh Powdthavee

Nanyang Technological University

Richard Layard

London School of Economics and Political Science

Sarah Flèche

London School of Economics and Political Science

Jan‐Emmanuel De Neve

University of Oxford

Andrew E. Clark

University of Luxembourg

Michael I. Norton

Harvard University

Georgios Kavetsos

London School of Economics and Political Science

Femke De Keulenaer

Ipsos (United Kingdom)

Bert Van Landeghem

University of Sheffield

Neil T. Thompson

Cancer Research UK

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Kansas State University

Newcastle University

Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station

Novartis (Switzerland)

University of Oxford

United States Geological Survey

Cancer Research UK

University College London

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The key determinants of happiness and misery

PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) (2017)

Andrew E. Clark Sarah Flèche Nick Powdthavee George Ward

Understanding the key determinants of people's life satisfaction will suggest policies for how best to reduce misery and promote wellbeing. This paper provides evidence from survey data on USA, Australia, Britain and Indonesia, which indicate that the things that matter most are people's social relationships and their mental and physical health. These adult factors affecting happiness are influenced in turn by the pattern of child development: the best predictor of an adult's life satisfaction is their emotional health as a child. These results call for a new focus for public policy - not wealth-creation but wellbeing-creation. (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.) (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.) (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.) (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.) (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.) (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.) (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.) (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.) (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.) (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.) (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.) (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.) (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.) (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.) (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.) (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.) (This abstract was (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)

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The Origins of Happiness

Andrew E. Clark Sarah Flèche Richard Layard Nattavudh Powdthavee George Ward

10.2307/j.ctvc77dgq

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Replication Data for: Happiness and Voting: Evidence from Four Decades of Elections in Europe

Harvard Dataverse (2019)

George Ward

There is a growing interest among policymakers in the use of subjective well-being (or "happiness") data to measure societal progress, as well as to inform and evaluate public policy. Yet despite a sharp rise in the supply of well-being-based policymaking, it remains unclear whether there is any electoral demand for it. In this paper, I study a long-run panel of general elections in Europe and find that well-being is a strong predictor of election results. National measures of subjective well-being are able to explain more of the variance in governing party vote share than standard macroeconomic indicators typically used in the economic voting literature. Consistent results are found at the individual level when considering subjective well-being and voting intentions, both in cross-sectional and panel analyses.

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Replication Data for: Happiness and Voting: Evidence from Four Decades of Elections in Europe Cleaner_swb.do

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Elsevier eBooks (2023)

J. David Allan Elizabeth P. Anderson Eli Asher Colton Avila Robin L. Bailey

10.1016/b978-0-12-818847-7.09991-2

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Origins of happiness

CentrePiece-The Magazine for Economic Performance (2017)

Andrew E. Clark Sarah Flèche Richard Layard Nattavudh Powdthavee George Ward

Understanding the key determinants of people's life satisfaction makes it possible to suggest policies for how best to reduce misery and promote wellbeing. A forthcoming book by Richard Layard and colleagues discusses evidence on the origins of happiness in survey data from Australia, Germany, the UK and the United States.

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Early maternal employment and non-cognitive outcomes in early childhood and adolescence: evidence from British birth cohort data

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (2015)

Warn N. Lekfuangfu Nattavudh Powdthavee Andrew E. Clark George Ward

We analyse the relationship between early maternal employment and child emotional and behavioural outcomes in early childhood and adolescence. Using rich data from a cohort of children born in the UK in the early 1990s, we find little evidence of a strong statistical relationship between early maternal employment and any of the emotional outcomes. However, there is some evidence that children whose mother is in full-time employment at the 18th month have worse behavioural outcomes at ages 4, 7, and 12.We suggest that these largely insignificant results may in part be explained by mothers who return tofull-time work earlier being able to compensate their children: we highlight the role of fathers’ time investment and alternative childcare arrangements in this respect.

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Harvard Dataverse (2017)

Jan‐Emmanuel De Neve George Ward Femke De Keulenaer Bert Van Landeghem Georgios Kavetsos

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10.7910/dvn/8epwqf/lcyith

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