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Four decades on, and commencing retirement, Australians who entered the labour market during the 1970s recession are less happy than those born earlier or later.
Today's national accounts will be important, but for many Australians will say little about living standards.
Happiness varies by location, and what matters for happiness varies as well.
Nearly 1 million teachers in France – 4% of the employed population – work with students on a daily basis, in the public or private sector. How do they feel?
Considering factors that contribute to happiness and life satisfaction.
It is well known that economic inequality is rising. In most industrialised nations the distribution of wealth and income is becoming increasingly concentrated. In the United States, the top 10% of earners…
Fall in love, have a baby, watch your happiness and satisfaction plummet. Psychology researchers know the transition to parenthood can be rough on relationships.
Since 1990, GDP per person in China has doubled and then redoubled. With average incomes multiplying fourfold in little more than two decades, one might expect many of the Chinese people to be dancing…
How happy are you in your job? Very happy or very unhappy? New data suggests that the happiest workers in the UK occupy jobs in the clergy. The next happiest workers are CEOs, and “managers and proprietors…
Researchers have known for some time that higher education does not necessarily lead to greater levels of life satisfaction…
An international study has found being able to accept that certain things cannot be changed is directly related to satisfaction…
Average household incomes in Australia defied the global financial crisis to increase substantially in the 2008-09 financial…
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychological Medicine, BMRI & Disciplne of Psychiatry, University of Sydney
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Professor of Economics, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, UNSW
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Professor of Social Policy / CEO, Centre for Social Impact, UNSW
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Professor of Psychology and Director of the Marriage and Family Studies Laboratory, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Research Associate, Social Policy and Social Work Department, University of York
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Chercheur épidémiologiste, Fondation MGEN pour la santé publique
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Jenny Chesters is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer/ Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Economics Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Economics, James Cook University
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PhD candidate, Research School of Economics., Australian National University
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Research Assistant at the Centre for Social Impact, UNSW
