Betsey Stevenson’s research while affiliated with University of Michigan and other places

... Women who completed primary school were more likely to divorce than those who did not attend formal school. This finding was consistent with previous investigations 4, 6,45,46 . The possible reason for this study is that girls' education can raise women's marriage ages, and raising marriage ages would reduce divorce rates. ...

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Predictors of divorce and duration of marriage among first marriage women in Dejne administrative town

... Our findings, particularly the multifaceted relationships between GDP, life satisfaction, and environmental metrics, resonate with a growing body of literature in the realm of the economics of happiness. Stevenson and Wolfers (2008) found a clear positive relationship between GDP and well-being across countries, a result we observed in our scatter plots, especially in the low to mid GDP per capita range. However, as GDP per capita increases, the clear-cut positive relationship with life satisfaction starts to fade, a trend similarly noted by Deaton (2008), who highlighted the complexities of equating economic growth with increased well-being. ...

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Economics, happiness and climate change: exploring new measures of progress

... This concept has been extended to other measures of inequality. Happiness and satisfaction inequality have been studied before in several contexts [32][33][34][35][36]. The model by Breeden and Leonova used a measure of inequality developed specifically for ordinal data by Kobus and Miłoś [37], which is a small variation on a previous measure by Naga and Yalcin [38] (4) ...

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Scoring AI-generated policy recommendations with Risk-Adjusted Gain in Net Present Happiness

... ). Considering previous studies(Sacks et al., 2010;Stevenson & Wolfers, 2013;Altindag & Xu, 2017;Rodriguez-Pose & Maslauskaite, 2012) that argued that an increase in per capita income will positively impact the life satisfaction of people, we include GDP growth as a control variable. For instance, investigating the individual and macro-level determinants of individual life satisfaction in 10 CEE countries, Rodriguez-Pose and Maslauskaite ...

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The Impact of Corruption on Human Well-Being Within an Economic Framework: Evidence from a Cross-National Study

... Back in 1990, the United Nations considered health, education and income as the three major elements of social progress (expressed in the well-known Human Development Index). There is no doubt that income is a major conditioning of progress and happiness (Sacks et al., 2010), but the effect may not be linear. While some studies do not find a satiation point of income (Stevenson and Wolfers, 2013), the prevailing view is that high-income individuals obtain little improvements (if any) in SWB with additional income (Diener et al., 2002;Dolan et al., 2008;Mentzakis and Moro, 2009). ...

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The relationship between income and subjective well-being: the case of Spain

... At the same time, studies on the association between inflation and unemployment and trust in other institutions remain scarce, especially in economics. In a rare exception, Stevenson and Wolfers (2011) examine the correlation between the unemployment rate and trust of different institutions in the United States and countries in the Gallup World Poll (for 2005-2010). The results suggest that unemployment is strongly associated with a decline in trust in financial institutions and national governments worldwide, which is even stronger among the OECD countries. ...

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The Societal Costs of Inflation and Unemployment

... Researchers in this field aim to understand how economic policies, institutions, and activities impact people's overall life satisfaction and happiness. Recent analysis has reevaluated the relationship between economic growth and subjective well-being, implying that while economic expansion is associated with increased happiness, there may be decreasing returns in terms of happiness as economies advance [4], [5]. ...

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Economics of Happiness: What Really Counts?

... Исследования второй половины XX в. чаще фиксировали бóльшую удовлетворенность жизнью у женщин, однако обнаружено, что в США с 1970-х гг. произошло снижение и абсолютных показателей благополучия у женщин, и относительное снижение этих характеристик относительно мужских (Stevenson, Wolfers, 2009). Авторы видят причины этого явления в снижении социальной сплоченности, увеличении тревожности, разнообразных факторах риска внутри семьи. ...

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Life satisfaction of elderly women and men

... Contradictory to Easterlin's claim, Hagerty and Veenhoven (2003) concluded that there was no paradox, and countries did indeed get happier with increasing income. Deaton (2008), Caporale et al. (2009), Stevenson and Wolfers (2008) and Stevenson and Wolfers (2013) examined that increases in absolute income were linked to increased self-reported happiness, for both individual people and whole countries. They found a statistical relationship between happiness and the absolute income, suggesting that happiness increased more slowly than income, but no ''saturation point'' was ever reached. ...

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Asymmetric effects of democracy and macroeconomic factors on happiness under high and low per capita incomes: A threshold panel analysis

... We found an inverse relationship between high-wealth quintiles and internal women's satisfaction with life. This finding contradicts existing evidence that suggests that people with higher socioeconomic status, on average, enjoy higher life satisfaction(Quispe-Torreblanca et al., 2021;Stevenson & Wolfers, 2013). The current finding about the inverse relationship between high wealth quintiles and satisfaction with life demonstrates that life satisfaction is influenced by a variety of factors beyond economic considerations. ...

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International and internal migration and the subjective wellbeing of wives left behind in Ghana