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on Economics of Happiness |
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Issue of 2024‒09‒16
two papers chosen by Viviana Di Giovinazzo, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca |
| By: | Veronika Placha (Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) |
| Abstract: | This study examines gender disparities beyond pay gaps, focusing on the impact of childbirth on overall well-being. Traditional gender roles, especially in parenting, lead to unequal divisions of labor and affect both partners´ well-being, yet the shift in well-being after childbirth remains underexplored. Utilizing data from the 2013 and 2018 EU SILC surveys, the study investigates the well-being gap between mothers and fathers, revealing that childbirth significantly influences parents´ subjective well-being. Mothers tend to experience a longer-lasting positive effect, peaking during the newborn stage and gradually diminishing as children grow older, while fathers´ wellbeing boost is shorter-lived, typically fading after the child´s first year. The findings also indicate that the well-being gap between mothers and fathers has widened over time, especially during the preschool years, underscoring the complex dynamics of well-being among parents. |
| Keywords: | Subjective well-being, Gender disparities, Childbirth, Well-being gap |
| JEL: | J13 J16 I31 J12 |
| Date: | 2024–08 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fau:wpaper:wp2024_28 |
| By: | DiMaria, charles-henri |
| Abstract: | Unemployment, job vulnerability, and inflation are among the economic events that generate stress and anxiety in the population. People express their anxiety by reporting ill-being. We evaluate the extent to which negative economic events translate into reported ill-being for the European countries between 2005 and 2019. Our objective is to identify countries that produce the lowest level of ill-being at a given level of negative economic events. We utilize a benchmarking technique called data envelopment analysis. While the standard version of this technique has been used to understand well-being, the standard version cannot explain ill-being. Therefore, we are the first to employ the non-standard version of this technique in the well-being literature known as anti-efficiency or pessimistic DEA. We find that Nordic countries tend to perform best in mitigating the influence of negative economic events on ill-being. Additionally, we discover that countries with well- organized public administration are better at containing ill-being. |
| Keywords: | Ill-being, pessimistic frontier, data envelopment analysis, civil society organizations, trust. |
| JEL: | H11 I31 |
| Date: | 2024–07–30 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:121603 |